The great escarpment is embayed by major valleys, and a belt of mountains lies between it and the coastal plain. |
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Interestingly, the Inupiat Eskimos that live on the coastal plain are greatly in favor of developing it carefully. |
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And just remember that everything on the Swan coastal plain is so highly seasonal. |
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As readers will discover, this rare plant species of federal concern grows in bald cypress-tupelo gum swamp forests in the coastal plain. |
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The remainder consists of fertile coastal and riverine lowlands, including a narrow sandy and marshy coastal plain. |
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Hoping to spot the herd, we hiked up to Caribou Pass and got our first uninterrupted view of the broad coastal plain. |
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To the east, the Great Escarpment marks the limit of headwards erosion of these tablelands from the coastal plain. |
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When you think of unusual Southeastern habitats, you might list the sandhills, Carolina bays, and pocosins of the coastal plain. |
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In May and early June the coastal plain serves as the principal calving ground for the Porcupine herd of caribou. |
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On a wide coastal plain, a broad river with sparsely treed grasslands on either side meandered towards the foothills. |
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These views include the horizon, the ocean and the astonishing volcanic cones of the four Glasshouse Mountains on the coastal plain. |
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A hot, wet coastal plain rises through thick forest and areas planted with sisal to a warm plateau. |
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Eriocaulon decangulare L. is a monoecious perennial that occurs in wetlands throughout the coastal plain of North Carolina. |
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Except on portions of the coastal plain, the Alaskan tundra generally has few lakes. |
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Recently the Inupiat of Alaska's North Slope have supported oil drilling on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. |
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The Venus fly trap is an endemic carnivorous plant growing on sandy soils in the central south-eastern coastal plain of North America. |
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Crossing the coastal plain on the heels of the main herd was a bit like walking through a barnyard. |
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The coastal plain is low and broad, with areas of sand between the marshy river valleys. |
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It would also specifically allow oil exploration on the coastal plain of the Arctic reserve in the north of Alaska. |
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It is humidly tropical along the coastal plain, cool in the western mountains, and rather dry and hot on the flat and sometimes rolling northern savanna. |
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The coastal plain here is also a very important staging area for migrating snow geese. |
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The region lies in the middle of the taiga, a sparse forest dotted with numerous peat bogs in the coastal plain. |
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Fly east from the Inupiat Eskimo village of Kaktovik, Alaska, and over the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and you'll find caribou. |
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The rest is wooded savanna, river valleys, and a small coastal plain. |
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By the time we had traversed the thickly forested coastal plain it was dark, and nothing could be seen through the windows except the black night. |
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The white fringeless orchid grows in wetlands in the Blue Ridge Mountains and coastal plain of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and South Carolina. |
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Black jack and post oak frequently co-occur with longleaf pine in fire-prone savannas of the outer coastal plain of the southeastern United States. |
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East of Adana, much of the coastal plain has limestone features such as collapsed caverns and sinkholes. |
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West-coast inlets, the coastal plain and broad views of the entire Main River watershed can be seen from the Long Range Mountains. |
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Multiflora rose, kudzu, and oriental bittersweet are substantially less abundant in the coastal plain, where agriculture is extensively practiced. |
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The Western Fells rise gradually from the Cumbrian coastal plain, Wainwright excluding some of the lower specimens nearest the sea. |
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The new agreement covers 850 square kilometres on the onshore RAK coastal plain and near the shore transition zone. |
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Nearly 50 percent of the population lives in Muscat and the Batinah coastal plain northwest of the capital. |
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Lower Guinea includes the coast and coastal plain. |
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The coastal plain is overlaid by sedimentary deposits. |
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Inland from the coastal plain is the interior plains region. |
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The coastal plain is intensively cultivated and produces tobacco and fruit and vegetable products, especially oranges, bananas, grapes, figs and melons. |
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A narrow coastal plain alternates with high mountains in the west. |
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Under the project, a 55 km-long transmission line will be constructed to transport water from the Beit Mellat reservoir in the mountains to the fertile Bebnin coastal plain. |
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The physical mapping will, insofar as possible, delimit the coastline, the coastal plain and the inland area depending on the altitude and its distance from the sea. |
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A treeless coastal plain rises to central highlands. |
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The flatness of the coastal plain explains the indentations of the coast on more than 830 km, with the Bay of Morbihan as the most obvious section. |
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To the west of the county are the West Lancashire Coastal Plain and the Fylde coastal plain north of the Ribble Estuary. |
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On the Red Sea coast, there is a narrow coastal plain, known as the Tihamah parallel to which runs an imposing escarpment. |
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The Fens, also known as the Fenlands, are a coastal plain in eastern England. |
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Due to the treeless and relatively flat surface of the coastal plain and the rising terrain just a short distance inland, surface winds tend to blow parallel the coastline most of the year. |
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Agriculture seems to have flourished on the Sussex coastal plain and on the Sussex Downs. |
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The Tidewater is a coastal plain between the Atlantic coast and the fall line. |
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The coastal plain of the Atlantic seaboard gives way further inland to deciduous forests and the rolling hills of the Piedmont. |
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Rather than taking the usual route along the northern coastal plain, his army invaded from Oswestry and took a route over the Berwyns. |
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In fact, they form the coastline, either sloping steeply directly into the sea, or are separated from it by a relatively narrow coastal plain. |
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The mountains and coastal plain of northern Anatolia experiences humid and mild climate. |
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The K'iche' had carved out a small empire covering a large part of the western Guatemalan Highlands and the neighbouring Pacific coastal plain. |
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Up the rivers of the eastern coastal plain lived about a dozen tribes of Siouan background. |
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Locally, the coastal plain is referred to as the Low Country and the other two regions as Up Country. |
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An unusual feature of the coastal plain is a large number of Carolina bays, the origins of which are uncertain. |
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The natural areas of the coastal plain are part of the Middle Atlantic coastal forests ecoregion. |
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At the southeastern edge of the Piedmont is the fall line, where rivers drop to the coastal plain. |
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Since almost all of Delaware is a part of the Atlantic coastal plain, the effects of the ocean moderate its climate. |
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The coastal plain is generally composed of low hills, such as the Pine Hills in the south and the North Central Hills. |
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Workington lies astride the River Derwent, on the West Cumbrian coastal plain. |
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Scafell gives a very different view to that from its higher neighbour with Wastwater and the coastal plain given great prominence. |
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The main and only feasible overland route connecting the coastal plain of Liguria to the north Italian plain runs through Bocchetta di Altare. |
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It is estimated that the coastal plain may have been at least one mile broader than it is today. |
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The final quarter is taken up by the coastal plain and the distant Solway Firth, backed by the hills of Galloway such as Merrick, Criffel and Broad Law. |
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Adits are driven into the side of a hill or mountain, and are often used when an ore body is located inside the mountain but above the adjacent valley floor or coastal plain. |
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Mexico, with its long plateaus and cordilleras, falls largely in the western region, although the eastern coastal plain does extend south along the Gulf. |
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Due to orographic effects, precipitation is much higher in the mountains of northern Baja California than on the western coastal plain or eastern desert plain. |
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Trujillo is set on a coastal plain of the La Libertad Region and has a gentle topography with hilly terrain, sitting on a plateau of the Trujillo Province. |
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The lowered sea level, and an isostatic bulge equilibrated with the depression beneath the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, exposed the continental shelf to form a coastal plain. |
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This tropical forest is situated in the northeastern coastal plain and extends into southern Tamaulipas state, on the east side of the Sierra Madre Oriental. |
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The littoral zone of Soconusco lies to the south of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, and consists of a narrow coastal plain and the foothills of the Sierra Madre. |
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The northwestern portion is on the coastal plain of the Gulf of Mexico with the south and east as part of the mountain chain that extends into northern Chiapas. |
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Going from the port to the central plateau entailed a daunting 2000 meter climb from the narrow tropical coastal plain in over just a hundred kilometers. |
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The combination of bones, stone artifacts, and the geology of the landscape gives a very complete picture of the coastal plain as it existed half a million years ago. |
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The coastal plain consists mainly of sand dunes and polders. |
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Westwards the hills diminish toward the coastal plain of Cumberland. |
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The coastal plain is narrow in the north and west of the country but wider in the south, where the Vale of Glamorgan has some of the best agricultural land. |
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The rich coastal plain continued to be the base for the large estates, ruled by their thegns, some of whom had their boundaries confirmed by charters. |
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