In 1964, he amplified and simplified shapes into low-relief wall pieces he called 'erotic thermometers.' ❋ Peter Plagens (2011)
Two low-relief bronze panels on either side of Grant's pedestal represent the infantry. ❋ Michael F. Bishop (2011)
The Belize submarine shelf is the drowned expression of a low-relief karst surface with locally developed sinkholes such as the Boca Ciega 'blue hole', and river channels. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The resplendent age of Louis XIV (who lived from 1638 to 1715) is represented by an array of monumental statuary, high - and low-relief plaques and medallions, and beguiling statuette groups that attest to the sophistication with which French sculptors interpreted Baroque aesthetics. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Broad, undulating, low-relief agricultural valleys south of the Wisconsinan terminal moraine that are underlain by cavernous carbonate rock and characterized by karst topography and fertile soils. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As they flow down to the coast, the lower reaches of these rivers become highly sinuous and cross extensive, low-relief plains. ❋ Unknown (2008)
These features are isolated stands of trees upon low-relief features, primarily natural levee remnants, ant and termite mounds, and archaeological earthworks. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Substrates of the low-relief region are a mix of sands, silts, and clays. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Hillsborough Valley lake region is a plain of low-relief containing relatively sluggish surface drainage of the Hillsborough River watershed. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The low-relief Webster Dry Plain, with elevations generally 75-125 feet, has only a thin veneer of sand or clayey sand over the Ocala Limestone and contains few lakes. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Substrates of the low-relief region are a mix of sands, silts, and clays, resulting in well to poorly drained Entisols and Inceptisols with silt loam or fine sandy loam surfaces. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The low-relief Tampa Plain lake region is drained mostly by the Pithlachascotee, Anclote, and Lake Tarpon basins, with elevations ranging from 5 to 90 feet. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As you progress through the exhibition, examining the exceptional delicacy with which McIntire renders in mahogany his minuscule baskets of fruit and flowers in low-relief, paying extraordinary attention to the textural characteristics of wicker, rose petals, grape leaves and the differences between the skin of an apple and that of a small melon, you realize how his gifts transcended those of mere craftsmanship. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Peninsula is mostly low-relief, with undulating plains comprising three quarters of the region. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The lowland areas are underlain by relatively flat, low-relief Palaeozoic carbonates forming undulating sandy plains, or flat-lying Paleozoic limestone bedrock covered by level to ridged glacial till, lacustrine silts and clays, and extensive peat deposits. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In low-relief areas, landslides occur as cut-and-fill failures (roadway and building excavations), river bluff failures, lateral spreading landslides, collapse of mine-waste piles (especially coal), and a wide variety of slope failures associated with quarries and open-pit mines. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It's a hefty door, with strong iron hinges; its central panel embellished with low-relief carvings of cumulus spitting zigzags of lightning. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1994)
There were open-ended containers and low-relief con-cave slabs of vitreous material. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1982)
I wasn't sure I would in fact be able to distinguish the features of low-relief landmarks at this speed and at a vertical angle, so I made a one-degree turn and held it for ten seconds and came back one degree and brought the river across to the other side, increasing the vertical angle and staring down again until a visual shift mechanism was set up and I had to look away. ❋ Hall, Adam (1978)
He had been our guest at Villiers, and I remember having made for him an imprint of two splendid low-relief tombstones which date back to the 15th century, and were the sole object and ornament of historic interest in our little village chapel. ❋ Frances Wilson Huard (N/A)
