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Sentence Examples Landscape after War presents a schematic mountain range and seascape elegantly integrated into a flat brown, green and gray field. Adjacent fans may merge to form a broad sloping surface, known as a bajada, at the foot of a mountain range. She hasn't looked at the scenic mountain range, valleys, bajadas, washes, and hills all around her. If the overriding plate is continental, the volcanic arc expresses itself as an extended mountain range such as the Andes of South America. The canyons between the peaks seemed bottomless and forbidding, and the mountain range stretched on for unseen miles in both directions. It's the fabled Cilician Gates that gave Alexander access to the wealth of Asia, a great, cleaving gap in a mountain range. The Velebit region is Croatia's largest mountain range, attracting speleologists, botanists and hikers from around the world. The Greater Caucasian mountain range rises in the north and the Southern Georgian Highlands in the south. It is located on the Rwandan side of a mountain range that straddles the borders of Rwanda, Congo and Uganda. Local knowledge of the mountain range and weather patterns is essential for heli-skiing, especially on the steep faces of the northern Rockies. Mines in the Pangaeum mountain range were extremely productive of silver and gold. A ride up the gondola here will enable visitors to get a bird's eye view of the majestic Canadian Rockies mountain range. Honiara, the capital, is situated on Guadalcanal, in a rain shadow cast by a high mountain range. The Sierra Nevada casts a rain shadow over the region to the east of that mountain range. The entire forested mountain range is now completely protected as part of a large World Heritage area. He points left to face the closest mountain range and says that the mountains are in Ethiopia. In fact, Croft references the above books in his, giving them praise for their comprehensive coverage of the mountain range. The reverse of the Afghanistan Medal is based on a portion of a snow-capped mountain range with a multi-rayed sun rising behind the mountains. Large flashes of light occasionally burst forth from the opening of a cave leading into the opposing mountain range. Cumulo-Nimbus clouds apparently lying atop the South Downs and turning them into a passable imitation of a snow-capped mountain range. Show More Sentences In addition, foehn winds, warm dry winds coming off the lee slopes of a mountain range, heated the basin. Brook trout are found as far south as Georgia in the Appalachian mountain range and extend north all the way to Hudson Bay. The coastal mountain range rises to a high plateau, which breaks precipitously down to the sea. They use melted snow from the mountain range that filters into underground channels. The pair swopped glamour for grind as they undertook the 80 mile journey through the Sierra del Escambray mountain range this month. The Andes mountain range is the backbone of the country as well as the continent of South America. If you're taking a picture of a mountain range, you might want to use a telephoto lens, a lens with an especially long focal length. Due to the mountain range and its threatening weather, we've decided to drive awhile to more friendly geography. They set off after breakfast, heading east toward the mountain range barely visible in the distance. What hurts the men of the Great Western Tiers most is that no one has asked them what should happen on the mountain range. North of the mountain range is the Oti plateau, a savanna land drained by the river of the same name. The Ballyhoura mountain range is the most popular local venue for hill walking and Griston Bog is signposted in Ballylanders. He has also climbed the Cullin mountain range on the Isle of Skye and has competed as the co-driver for a rally team for 15 years. And to the right was a precipitous mountain range with snowy caps and rocky cliffs. However, ahead of them loomed a large mountain range, like an impassable wall. The moon was now descending behind the mountain range while the sun rose up to break through the morning haze. In the background, a mountain range is partly obscured by a hedgerow and trees. Every now and then the fog would break for a moment, exposing the mountain range looming in the distance. It's pretty much the only way to get through the mountain range in that area. In the distance she thought she saw the dark outline of a mountain range, but it was too far to be certain. Show More Sentences Vancouver is close to both the ocean and the mountain range so lots of rain is expected. Qazvin, like Tehran, sits in the foothills of the Alborz mountain range, which skirts the south coast of the Caspian Sea. He looked out at the white capped peaks and marveled at the beauteous expanse of the mountain range. The terrain between the spur of the mountain range and the sea is flat and thickly forested. The backbone of the region is made up of the Balkans, a mountain range that runs north-south. Somebody has to ask the question of how the chart makers could neglect to find an entire undersea mountain range. In the east, the Sierra Maestra mountain range is beautiful and full of endemic species. The mountain range I had been keeping my eye on throughout the trip was getting steadily closer. The sun sinks behind the mountain range and sheds a shadow over the forest. Beyond these cities stood the snowy peaks of this spectacular mountain range. The land is mostly desert, with a mountain range in the north and oases scattered across the sands. The mountain range has 3,200 glaciers with hundreds of millions of cubic metres of snow. He noticed the long shadows on the ground below him, cast from a distant mountain range behind him. However, the mountain range was not on the navigation charts used by the US Navy. It's hard, unyielding rock, 700 million to 800 million years old, left over from an ancient mountain range. Hill fog or upslope fog, as its name implies, is formed as mild moist air is forced to ascend a hill or mountain range. The main island is green and hilly and has a mountain range that divides it in half. Iceland sits precariously atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a vast undersea mountain range whose subsurface volcanoes account for much of the country's tumultuous terrain. Feral hogs are often found in the remote, rugged portions of the state's Ozarks mountain range, where thick brush and timber make it hard to locate and kill the animals. It's a takahe, an extraordinary, huge flightless gallinule long believed to be extinct until rediscovered in a remote mountain range 50 years ago. Show More Sentences One well-known, divergent boundary, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, is a submerged mountain range in the Atlantic Ocean that extends from the Arctic Ocean to beyond the southern tip of Africa. It had to pass through gaps in the high mountain range to reach Wamena. There was a road leading down the opposite side of the mountain range to which they'd first come, but it would be a long, bumpy trek for someone with no anaesthetic. These rocks do not, however, crop out as a continuous mountain range but in isolated inliers, many of which were uplifted during the Tertiary in response to Alpine movements. The nerve gas shells were fired from a military base in a mountain range to the west of Damascus, according to the report. In the countryside, my view is of trees and some kind of mountain range in the distance. Parts of the ocean bed in the area are like a mountain range, with ravines as deep as 20,000 feet. The Taurus mountain range runs right along this southern coast of Turkey and protects the beaches from north winds making them a wonderful suntrap. Picturesque and heterogeneous architecture of succursal churches, put up on practically every exposed height, can be seen either from the valley or of a mountain range. Now fully warmed, Alex's impossibly large arms resemble a relief map of his native country, with jagged veins resembling the Ural mountain range, dividing east from west. It has highly variable landforms, that range from torrid plains, tropical islands, and a parched desert to the highest mountain range in the world. Solving the border dispute may be difficult, despite progress in recent years at demarcating the boundary, which straddles the Himalayan mountain range. These metamorphic and plutonic igneous rocks form the uplifted core of the broadly anticlinal Owl Creek Mountains, a mountain range that formed during the Late Cretaceous. To the east of the road rise the lower slopes of a mountain range dominated by no less than seven Munros, the highest group of hills in Britain south of Tayside. To the north, the icy southern peaks of the Brooks Range, the northernmost mountain range on the continent, nip at the sky. The only way to reach it is by two-lane roads, most of which twist tortuously through the scenic coastal mountain range or along the rocky Pacific coast. Like a mountain range whose profile appears equally craggy when observed from both far and near, fractals are used to define curves and surfaces, independent of their scale. Far above them a river flowed off the mountain range, forming a waterfall. Although each mountain range has a unique set of characteristics, a particular mountain can be structurally classified as upwarped, volcanic, fault-block, or folded. Geologically, the island is an outcrop of a submerged mountain range. Show More Sentences The Sierra Madre mountain range continues to stretch across the western section of Central Luzon, snaking southwards into the Bicol Peninsula. The catchment area is the slope of a great mountain range covered with fine forests, and there are many good reservoir sites. Scientific studies confirm that the Capivara mountain range was densely populated in prehistoric periods. The jagged Cuillin, on the Isle of Skye, represents a major mountain range that is not located on the Scottish mainland. Both are located in the Cairngorms, a mountain range in the eastern Highlands which is the highest upland area in Britain. The generation of an Alpine mountain range is a matter of piling on the nappes. The Mousa Ali range is considered the country's highest mountain range, with the tallest peak on the border with Ethiopia and Eritrea. A large body of glacial ice astride a mountain, mountain range, or volcano is termed an ice cap or ice field. This helps to show the relationship between erosion and the shape of a mountain range. It is bordered by a low mountain range to the south and surrounded by flat farmland to the north and west. The Scandinavian mountain range generally defines the border between Norway and Sweden. On the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it is bordered by France and the Principality of Andorra. The Himalayas, the world's tallest mountain range, are assumed to have been formed by the collision of two major plates. A population in the Sierra de Gredos mountain range is facing predation by otters and increased competition from the frog Pelophylax perezi. Geologically, West Antarctica closely resembles the Andes mountain range of South America. The Middle Atlas is a portion of the Atlas mountain range lying completely in Morocco. The Saharan Atlas of Algeria is the eastern portion of the Atlas mountain range. The Himalayas between Nepal and China is the tallest mountain range in the world. Cox, this mountain range was breached in Late Cretaceous times by the formation of the Mississippi Embayment. The folded Cape Supergroup formed the northern foothills of this towering mountain range. Show More Sentences The Cape Fold Mountains became fully formed during this period to become the northern foothills of this enormous mountain range. It is in the Eifel mountain range, and is part of the East Eifel volcanic field within the larger Vulkaneifel. Petroglyphs on a rock wall found in the Sierra Madre mountain range, Rizal, Philippines. The maar lake is within the Eifel mountain range, and is part of the East Eifel volcanic field within the larger Vulkaneifel. This set the border on the Karawanken mountain range, with many Slovenes remaining in Austria. Western Greece contains a number of lakes and wetlands and is dominated by the Pindus mountain range. The few men who continued the journey with Balboa entered the mountain range along the Chucunaque River the next day. Seram is traversed by a central mountain range, the highest point of which, Mount Binaiya, is covered with dense rain forests. The Tairona inhabited northern Colombia in the isolated mountain range of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The mountain range forms a natural barrier between the two countries. The mountain range of the divide is called the Cordillera de Talamanca near the Costa Rican border. His body is lost, but now appears as a mountain range present surrounding the valley in the shape of a man's body. Sections of the flood basalts have been eroded away, but still form a basaltic mountain range known as North Mountain. To the east of the mountain range, the Sonoran Desert dominates the landscape. The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia. For mountain range peak lists, attaining the goal provides the peak bagger with a deeper appreciation for the topography of the range. Foothills are geographically defined as gradual increase in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area. The condition exists because warm moist air rises by orographic lifting to the top of a mountain range. Much of the area can be seen only by hikers who travel without trails to the higher reaches of this rugged mountain range. The landing site was located on an alluvial fan at the foot of a mountain range and less than a kilometer from the shoreline of a playa lake. Show More Sentences Perched on the edge of MacGillycuddy's Reeks mountain range and Kenmare Bay, gentle sea breezes keep the air crisp and clean. Walkers will enjoy the breathtaking views of Lough Leane and the mountain range with the intriguing name of Macgillycuddy's Reeks. The Ordovician facies extend approximately meridionally as this mountain range is oriented today. This underwater mountain range is part of the 40,000-mile mid-oceanic ridge. In southern Poland, on the northern fringe of the Tatra Mountains, the highest mountain range in the Carpathians, sits Krakow. A ski and snowboard week held in the jagged Sierra Nevada mountain range. In 2006, spelunkers stumbled across the ancient remains of two men in a cave in Spain's Cantabrian mountain range. Rick Allen and Sandy Allan awarded the Piolet d'Or after completing a previously unclimbed and deadly route in the mountain range last July. The skiable area extends 2965 acres across a mountain range of six peaks and includes 165 named pistes. The thoughtful design plots its way through the changing landscape framed by mountain range on three sides and the East Sea to the west. The epicenter of the earthquake was 196 km deep and centred 82 km southeast of Faizabad in a remote area of Afghanistan in the Hindukush mountain range. We were flying toward Hato Pinero, an hacienda located between the plains of the Orinoco in central Venezuela and the Caribbean mountain range to the north. Thung Dase and its neighboring villages lie in the watershed of the Palian and Trang Rivers, which drain into the sea from the Bandthad mountain range. Morro Rock is the most prominent of the Nine Sister mountain range located within San Luis Obispo County and fronts a beachfront gateway to the city of Morro Bay, California. Just south of the impressive Canadian Shield mountain range, the landscape is one of trees, lakes and villages with timber homes peppered across the luscious countryside. So, my radioman, George Dreisbach, and I took off in a TBM Avenger for the quiet little auxiliary air station at the base of the towering Sierra mountain range. Along the way we stopped by Muckross House in the breathtaking Killarney National Park, with the formidable Macgillycuddy's Reeks mountain range providing the backdrop. The Northern Fells are a mountain range in the English Lake District. The south contains the low mountain range of the Maya Mountains. The Yazidis are indigenous to the Sinjar mountain range in northern Iraq. Show More Sentences This mountain range effectively divides the weather patterns in the state. After crossing the Bolivian mountain range and traveling past Lake Titicaca, Almagro arrived on the shores of the Desaguadero River and finally set up camp in Tupiza. In 1610, Pedro de Peralta, a later governor of the Province of New Mexico, established the settlement of Santa Fe near the southern end of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range. The northeastern section of Luzon is generally mountainous, with the Sierra Madre, the longest mountain range in the country, abruptly rising a few miles from the coastline. This list contains some of the major peaks in the Andes mountain range. The Andes are the world's highest mountain range outside Asia. Both islands are part of an extinct volcanic mountain range. The Aquitanians inhabited a territory limited to the north and east by the Garonne River, to the south by the Pyrenees mountain range, and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean. In South America, the Andes mountain range blocks Pacific moisture that arrives in that continent, resulting in a desertlike climate just downwind across western Argentina. The Serra da Estrela, the highest mountain range on continental Portugal. The name Grampians is believed to have first been applied to the mountain range in 1520 by the Scottish historian Hector Boece, an adaptation of the incorrect Mons Grampius. Cal Madow is a mountain range in the northeastern part of the country. Examples from Classical Literature Bituminous coal is mined in the same mountain range, in the area between Gabrovo and Sliven. It would be hard to believe any mountain range has been so long stationary. The mountain range can only arise where the geosyncline is deeply filled by long ages of sedimentation. We had occasion to go to a village fifteen miles from Kagoshima and crossed a low mountain range of perhaps two thousand feet. It is looking southward that we see the disordered ranks of the mountain range. On his own small estate the growling old vagabond threw up his own mountain range, like an old volcano, and its geological formation was Dust. A day or two afterwards a coach containing the company was really crawling and staggering up the spurs of the menacing mountain range. He had a feeling that he was being hurried from peak to peak of a mountain range without time to take a good breath in between. In Grenada the habits are ruder, and Grenada is chiefly a mountain range. It seemed as though the mountain range had separated two atmospheres, and that now we had got into the thunderous one. Up toward its source we traveled until on the tenth day we came to a little spring far up upon the side of a lofty mountain range. And, over all, was a great mountain range of snowy clouds in the blue southern sky. He saw what looked like the truth as by flashes of lightning on a dark, stormy night you might see a mountain range. We followed the Kuti River at the foot of the mountain range. Laramie is closer to our place, and one less mountain range to cross. It was a great cleft that split the mountain range from crest to center. Two days' journey into the mountain range were the Mantasta Indians. I have often wished we could go down near the mountain range. Located in central Vermont about an hour east of Burlington, Stowe Mountain Resort and Smugglers' Notch Resort are perched on different sides of the same mountain range. It gave us a rather rough climb to the summit, but finally we stood upon the level mesa which stretched back for several miles to the mountain range. 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