Besides being a watershed, a hill area impacts a much larger area in the plains below. |
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Bountiful showers across the Indo-Gangetic plains have raised hopes of a rebound in kharif agricultural output. |
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All the large affluents of the Amazonas, which drain the great plains, are navigable to a considerable extent. |
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There are plenty of shocks and jolts in this journey through ragged plains, rugged mountains, murky organisations and lethal hit men. |
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Hour after hour of wideness, mountain ranges and plains, terrain that doesn't so much have features as textures. |
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A fruit and vegetable farm was located on the flat plains of Western Kansas. |
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Anywhere between 30 and 70 million bison once ranged over the plains of North America. |
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These fish live in the abyssal plains, flat expanses of the ocean floor at depths of 10,000 to 20,000 feet. |
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The plains spread out below beyond waves of barren ridges and Junagadh, too, was clearly visible. |
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Lewd, alcoholic, and rambunctious, she was a terror around the mining towns and military forts on the western plains. |
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It flew in search of waterfalls that fell off the hills and flowed in serpentine paths on the plains. |
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It is a lush, steaming, tangled waterscape of swamps, soggy plains, and rice paddies crisscrossed with thousands of miles of rivers, streams, and canals. |
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Beyond the river, caramel plains rolled away to the distant horizon, spotted with acacia trees and slow-moving giraffe. |
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Many of the U.S. reserves of crude oil are found in the Midwest and along the plains region. |
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Add up all the lions, elephants, warthogs, giraffes, gazelles, zebras, impalas, topis and hyenas that live on these plains and they fail to outnumber the gnus. |
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On the arid plains of northern China, the depletion of shallow reservoirs has forced people to sink wells into aquifers more than 1 km below the surface. |
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On the dry plains, prepared skins were sewn and sealed to make water bags. |
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The city sits on high, flat plains 12 miles east of the Rockies. |
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In present day New Mexico, nine men run through the plains chasing after an antelope. |
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The alluvial soil deposited by the rivers when they overflow their banks has created some of the most fertile plains in the world. |
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Thatching materials range from plains grasses to waterproof leaves found in equatorial regions. |
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A sizeable portion of Denmark's terrain consists of rolling plains whilst the coastline is sandy, with large dunes in northern Jutland. |
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Many groups had migrated to western Europe from the plains of eastern Europe. |
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Here the transition from the desert vegetation of the plains to the lush vegetation of the mist belts is abrupt. |
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However, it is often difficult to precisely determine the location of a watershed in a region of level plains, such as in central North America. |
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The island's main geographical features include low central plains surrounded by coastal mountains. |
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In the hollows of the plains are ponds or lakes of fresh and brackish water. |
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The northern plains are delimited in the west by the Scandinavian Mountains and the mountainous parts of the British Isles. |
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Elsewhere, many of the youngest volcanic plains units onlap tesserae at crustal plateau boundaries. |
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Major shallow water bodies submerging parts of the northern plains are the Celtic Sea, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea complex and Barents Sea. |
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Building on flood plains removes flood storage, which again exacerbates downstream flooding. |
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Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland, and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands. |
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From the coast on the Indian Ocean, the low plains rise to central highlands. |
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Stones from the mountains were used over mountain ranges, while rammed earth was used for construction in the plains. |
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They followed the migrating herds of buffalo across the plains. |
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Deosai National Park in Pakistan is known for being one of the highest plains in the world with serene beauty and wildlife. |
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This leads to a landscape of hills and plains, as well as substantial meanders which have formed impressive river cliffs. |
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Subsequent influences have included the cuisines of Central Asia and the North Indian plains. |
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Louis were and remain important hubs for the railroad that connected the plains with the Great Lakes and cities farther east, like Philadelphia. |
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Deserts, forests, rain forests, plains, grasslands and other areas including the most developed urban areas, all have distinct forms of wildlife. |
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Areas where more particles are dropped are called alluvial or flood plains, and the dropped particles are called alluvium. |
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On average, sea level is higher over mountains and ridges than over abyssal plains and trenches. |
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Alluvial plains are found along the coast, the largest of which is that of the Guadalquivir in Andalusia. |
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Brazilian topography is also diverse and includes hills, mountains, plains, highlands, and scrublands. |
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My Sif, Even the wide plains, Even Middle Garth's broad reaches, Even Ase's Garth itself Cannot hold our love enclosed. |
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However, it indicated that the plains wanderer actually belonged into one of them. |
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The Kotsoteka Comanche lived mostly along the Canadian River, where the Llano ended and the dry plains turned into grassy canyonlands. |
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When cattle replaced buffalo on the plains, cow chips in turn replaced buffalo chips as a ready source of British thermal units. |
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He decided to stage a durbar on the plains outside the city, at which the Afghans would be able to express their loyalty to their new ruler. |
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The Great Desert of Africa of course puts a limit to its wanderings, and the firless plains of Egypt equally discourage its approach. |
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England's terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and southern England. |
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The southern coastal areas were originally amphibious flood plains and swampy land. |
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Occupying Germany had proven too costly and with it, ended 28 years of Roman campaigning across the North European plains. |
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A ring of coastal mountains surround low plains at the centre of the island. |
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Much of the alluvium in the river plains had not yet been deposited and the tidal river estuaries extended much further inland. |
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On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta. |
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On 25 October 1415, on the plains near the village of Agincourt, a French army intercepted his route. |
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Sediment infilling, bathtub-like, of dammed intermontane basins formed flat high plains at each step. |
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After a difficult crossing over the Alps, the French army entered the plains of Northern Italy virtually unopposed. |
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The lowland areas are typically traversed by ranges of low hills, frequently composed of chalk, and flat plains. |
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Further south, he saw stepped plains of shingle and seashells as raised beaches showing a series of elevations. |
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The southern plains are home to mongooses, civets, hares, the Asiatic jackal, the Indian pangolin, the jungle cat, and the desert cat. |
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The bathymetry of the ocean bottom is marked by fault block ridges, abyssal plains, ocean deeps, and basins. |
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Led by Hermes, Priam takes a wagon out of Troy, across the plains, and into the Greek camp unnoticed. |
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It is mainly inhabited by Berber people, who live in small villages and cultivate the high plains of the Ourika Valley. |
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We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer. |
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Coastal plains are often dominated by fluvial processes, while the continental shelf is dominated by deltaic and longshore current processes. |
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Owing in part to their vast size, abyssal plains are believed to be major reservoirs of biodiversity. |
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Other faunal groups, such as the polychaete worms and isopod crustaceans, appear to be endemic to certain specific plains and basins. |
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Many apparently unique taxa of nematode worms have also been recently discovered on abyssal plains. |
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In addition to their high biodiversity, abyssal plains are of great current and future commercial and strategic interest. |
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Sediments of certain abyssal plains contain abundant mineral resources, notably polymetallic nodules. |
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It then flows very slowly into the deep abyssal plains of the Atlantic, always in a southerly direction. |
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The bulk of the land on Cape Cod consists of glacial landforms, formed by terminal moraine and outwash plains. |
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Playa lakes are a form of shallow freshwater marsh that occurs in the southern high plains of the United States. |
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Cities tended to be located in valleys between mountains, or on coastal plains, and dominated a certain area around them. |
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Notably, Salisbury is situated between the chalk of Salisbury Plain and marshy flood plains. |
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Basquisation of the plains region was too weak against the advance of romanization. |
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These include the western plains of New South Wales, and the Einasleigh Uplands, Barkly Tableland, and Mulga Lands of inland Queensland. |
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Since then, hundreds of similar figurines have been discovered from the Pyrenees to the plains of Siberia. |
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The Alps of western Austria give way somewhat into low lands and plains in the eastern part of the country. |
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The bog iron deposits of Northern and Northeastern Europe were created after the Ice Age ended, on postglacial plains. |
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The terrain is distributed roughly equally between mountains, hills, and plains. |
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They are surrounded by the Moldavian and Transylvanian plateaus and Carpathian Basin and Wallachian plains. |
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Milan's climate is similar to much of Northern Italy's inland plains, with hot, sultry summers and cold, foggy winters. |
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In the plains, intensively cultivated for centuries, little of the original environment remains. |
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A peculiarity of the regional climate is the thick fog that covers the plains between October and February. |
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Productions of the higher plains include cereals, vegetables, fruit trees and mulberries. |
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The southern part contains also a series of plateaux and gently undulating plains. |
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Extensive plains are primarily located in the regions of Thessaly, Central Macedonia and Thrace. |
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The plains usually have either a tropical or subtropical arid desert climate or arid steppe climate. |
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The hybrid foals lacked a dewlap and resembled the plains zebra apart from their larger ears and their hindquarters pattern. |
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Mountain zebras and plains zebras live in groups, known as 'harems', consisting of one stallion with up to six mares and their foals. |
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The coastal plains exhibit more or less flat, narrow terrain with landforms such as beach ridges, sandbars, and backwater marshes. |
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The Senegalese landscape consists mainly of the rolling sandy plains of the western Sahel which rise to foothills in the southeast. |
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The terrain consists mostly of grassy plains and wooded hills in the eastern region. |
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The Bei Jiang enters the delta plains at Qingyuan but doesn't begin to split until near Sanshui. |
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It is bordered to its west by the plains of the Al Batinah Region and to its east by Ash Sharqiyah Region. |
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Smaller, discontinuous plains are found along the remaining coast of the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Gulf of Oman. |
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The coastal plains of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman in southern Iran have mild winters, and very humid and hot summers. |
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The east is formed by low humid plains formed by sediment deposited by a number of rivers. |
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The topography changes drastically, rising from the narrow coastal plains to the highlands of the eastern Sierra Madre. |
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Between 1583 and 1589 he carried out his first two expeditions, going through the wild regions of the Colombian plains and the Upper Orinoco. |
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Llamas appear to have originated from the central plains of North America about 40 million years ago. |
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Important wetlands include the Jardine Complex, Lakefield systems and the estuaries of the great rivers of the western plains. |
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A thin veneer of Cenozoic gravel, sand, clay and mud underlie the coastal plains of Wrangel Island. |
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In the Northern Range, the climate is often different in contrast to the sweltering heat of the plains below. |
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The north of Belize consists mostly of flat, swampy coastal plains, in places heavily forested. |
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This area of lowlands, flood plains, and swamp land is sometimes referred to as the Delta region. |
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The great empires of Eurasia were all located on temperate and subtropical coastal plains. |
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After emerging from the Qingtong Gorge, the river comes into a section of vast alluvial plains, the Yinchuan Plain and Hetao Plain. |
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The Gulf Coastal Plain in Texas is punctuated by a series of cuestas that parallel the coast, as are most coastal plains. |
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They are a transition zone between plains and low relief hills to the adjacent topographically higher mountains, hills, and uplands. |
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The rivers Mersey, Alt and Ribble feed into the plain and the flood plains add to the flatness. |
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Much of the plateau is in water shallower than 2,000 meters, but it is surrounded on three sides by abyssal plains more than 4,500 meters deep. |
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Nutrient-rich currents from the cold southern seas of the Antarctic swirl around volcanic seamounts that rise from vast deep abyssal plains. |
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The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of the Earth's surface and are important in global carbon cycling. |
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The flat abyssal plains of soft silt haven't managed to avoid cable troubles either. |
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Uneven plains that are interspersed with pebbles and rocks are likely to cause punctures in the zorbs. |
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Big cats such as the American cheetah and American lion once roamed the plains, as did mammoths, mastodons, wild horses and the first camels. |
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For example, the Anasazi Indians of the Southwest lived high above the plains on cliffs, which afforded natural surveillance. |
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To see beautiful lands he had visited and described, Loro took Tuma to visit the cold Andes mountains and the plains, and Angel Falls. |
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Our offering includes decorative jacquards, tapestries, plains, stripes, fire retardant, Crypton, Millennium, vinyl and vertical textiles. |
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From the high plains of North America to the Arabian peninsula, scientists are reading the dunes. |
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The Sioux kept consolidating their dominant position on the northern plains. |
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The Avon flows from Bath in the east, through flood plains and areas which were marshes before the city's growth. |
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Species living in forests, woodland, or bush tend to be sedentary, but many of the plains species undertake long migrations. |
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The processes of orogeny can take tens of millions of years and build mountains from plains or from the seabed. |
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Large, sturdy birds of open plains with long legs and necks and strong feet. |
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He may actually have introduced them from Afghanistan to the plains of India, as he did with other plants like melons and grapes. |
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Market gardens and garden centres have grown up on the fertile plains of the Clyde Valley. |
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With coastal mountains and interior plains, the Americas have several large river basins that drain the continents. |
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Geest is a type of landform, slightly raised above the surrounding countryside, that occurs on the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark. |
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The massive sheets of ice locked away water, lowering the sea level, exposing continental shelves, joining land masses together, and creating extensive coastal plains. |
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For as is well known to all, not a single village of the highlands or the plains failed to pay the tribute levied on it by those who were in charge of these matters. |
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Fuerte Bulnes was later abandoned, and in 1848 the city of Punta Arenas was founded farther north where the Magellanic forests meets the Patagonian plains. |
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Texas in particular has many game ranches, as well as habitats and climates, that are very hospitable to African and Asian plains antelope species. |
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To one fresh from the baked Australian plains, there is likeness between any green and humid land and the last unparched country that he may have seen. |
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India has very fertile plains, and irrigation is practised widely. |
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Possibly originating from the plains of Asia, northern China and Mongolia, the brown rat spread to other parts of the world sometime in the Middle Ages. |
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Wolves in the eastern Balkans benefitted from the region's contiguity with the former Soviet Union and large areas of plains, mountains and farmlands. |
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Jutland's terrain is relatively flat, with open lands, heaths, plains and peat bogs in the west and a more elevated and slightly hilly terrain in the east. |
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The deep ocean floor is thought to be fairly flat with occasional deeps, abyssal plains, trenches, seamounts, basins, plateaus, canyons, and some guyots. |
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The interior plains of the Ad Dakhiliyah Region border Muscat to the south, while the Gulf of Oman forms the northern and western periphery of the city. |
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The only large plains are found along the coast of the Caspian Sea and at the northern end of the Persian Gulf, where the country borders the mouth of the Arvand river. |
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The northwest plains were the home of deep-sea enteropneust acorn worms. |
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As the grain elevator and other industrial structures became more common on the plains, they redefind the traditional pastoral image of the American landscape. |
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These mountains form a link between the Cordillera Central and the Sierra Madre mountain ranges, separating the Cagayan Valley from the Central Luzon plains. |
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This AAWT track varies from a four wheel drive track along the Barry Mountains to a foot pad across the snow grass plains of the high country from Hotham to Mt Bogong. |
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The eastern segment of the fault is complex and characterised by a series of seamounts and ridges separating the Tores and Horseshoe abyssal plains. |
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The flood damage was made worse by the presence of human settlements on flood plains and the lack of hydraulic infrastructure on the Sierra and Usumacinta rivers. |
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Metallic nodules are common in some areas of the plains, with varying concentrations of metals, including manganese, iron, nickel, cobalt, and copper. |
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With the great annual cattle drives which start from the arid plains of the Red River and the Pecos comes the wild cowboy, with his six-shooter on his hip. |
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Iran has thrived despite that because of its skills at water engineering, with its millennia-old system of qanats channeling water from higher regions to irrigate plains. |
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From the mountains to the plains and sea, many ingredients play a role. |
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It has narrow coastlines, limestone plateaus and coastal plains. |
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However, there were millions of head of beef roaming the plains of Texas. |
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The Sardinian soils, even those plains are slightly permeable, with aquifers of lacking and sometimes brackish water and very small natural reserves. |
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On the plains to the east they are only found in association with man. |
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Mountains and hills, plains and pastures, are both fertile and beautiful. |
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Equid teeth also evolved from browsing on soft, tropical plants to adapt to browsing of drier plant material, then to grazing of tougher plains grasses. |
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Deep sea benthic fishes are more likely to associate with canyons or rock outcroppings among the plains, where invertebrate communities are established. |
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Coastal plains are found in both the southwest and the southeast. |
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A layer of loess, a rather unstable fine silt deposited by the foehn winds which bluster across the plains, covers the northern and western flanks of the peninsula. |
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The terrain of the islands is a mixture of mountains and plains. |
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In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in the United States are plains and prairies where golden eagles are widespread, especially where there's a low human presence. |
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He famously sat in meditation under a Ficus religiosa tree now called the Bodhi Tree in the town of Bodh Gaya in Gangetic plains region of South Asia. |
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Between the chalk hills are large, wide vales and wide flood plains. |
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In most of the Punjab and Sindh, the Indus plains support tropical and subtropical dry and moist broadleaf forest as well as tropical and xeric shrublands. |
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The soils are generally poor, except on the plains, where areas with natural grass, fertile soils and warm summers provide an opportunity for tillage. |
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There is an expanse of alluvial plains along it in the Punjab and Sindh. |
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Ranging from the coastal areas of the south to the glaciated mountains of the north, Pakistan's landscapes vary from plains to deserts, forests, hills, and plateaus. |
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Sugarcane plantations and grazing ranches are common in the high plains, while large rice paddies cover the lowlands south of the towns of La Sierpe and El Jibaro. |
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From the Campagna and the Latin hills, the flame of rebellion spread to Antium and Terracina, and to the most remote allies of the Romans, the cities of the Campanian plains. |
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The interaction of these elements with the state's topography creates distinct microclimates in the Shenandoah Valley, the mountainous southwest, and the coastal plains. |
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He concentrated instead on seizing a substantial portion of the coastal plains around Narbonne in 736 and heavily reinforced Arles as he advanced inland. |
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They are locally considered to be the first hills in the Pennine Chain, and rise to a high point of 170 metres above sea level from the flat plains to the east. |
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It tends to gather in large flocks and winter in open areas, agricultural plains, ploughed land, and short meadows, ranging from Europe to North Africa. |
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Dead branches were removed by construction workers and the area around the river was made more habitable for humansflood plains as flooding decreased sharply. |
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Rare, very large turbidity currents periodically deposit thick sequences of sediment on oceanic abyssal plains, but their return periods span many thousands of years. |
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Most of Russia consists of vast stretches of plains that are predominantly steppe to the south and heavily forested to the north, with tundra along the northern coast. |
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Fewer than 10 percent of records of marine life come from abyssal plains between 4,000 and 6,000 meters deep, yet that zone accounts for half the oceans' area. |
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The most widespread zonal vegetation is that of the microphyllous desert, a desertscrub that flourishes on regosols and on Quaternary coarse alluvial plains and lower bajadas. |
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The Moroccan coastal plains experience remarkably moderate temperatures even in summer, owing to the effect of the cold Canary Current off its Atlantic coast. |
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In captivity, plains zebras have been crossed with mountain zebras. |
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European bison tend to live in lightly wooded to fully wooded areas and areas with increased shrubs and bushes, though they can also live on grasslands and plains. |
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American bison live in river valleys, and on prairies and plains. |
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The most densely populated regions of the island are the eastern highlands and the eastern coast, contrasting most dramatically with the sparsely populated western plains. |
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The soil in coastal plains, such as Salalah, have shown increased levels of salinity, due to over exploitation of ground water and encroachment by seawater on the water table. |
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The earliest sites at which Germanic peoples per se have been documented are in Northern Europe, in what now constitutes the plains of Denmark and southern Sweden. |
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Presuras also appear in Catalonia, when the count of Barcelona ordered the Bishop of Urgell and the count of Gerona to repopulate the plains of Vic. |
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To oceanic type is represented by those parts of the earth crust, which correspond to deep water abyssal plains in planetary relief, mid-ocean ridges and deep water hollows. |
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Haiti is the most mountainous nation in the Caribbean and its terrain consists mainly of them interspersed with small coastal plains and river valleys. |
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The central region consists of two plains and two sets of mountain ranges. |
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