Sentence examples for The hummocks from inspiring English sources

The hummocks transform down flow into erosional remnant drumlins; possibly the result of flow acceleration on a negative slope.

The moon had risen over the prairie and shot the hummocks with shadow.

Their sod houses and the hummocks of their graves are much the same - protrusions from the earth that go back into it.

As Dessay crossed the stage from left to right, she encountered the hummocks of her despised heath and took up her old position.

Ahead, beyond the hummocks and scrub in an old tin-streaming ravine, Stowe's Pound and the Cheesewring peep above the horizon.

Port Arthur, the "Hill City," developed in the 1850s as a silver-mining settlement on the hummocks a few miles to the north.

A few days before Mr. Schneider's group was puzzling over the hummock, seniors at Bronx Regional High School in Morrisania set out on the last of a dozen surveys of local street conditions they had conducted.

For example, Cryosols associated with earth hummocks, may have a summer soil temperature at the centre of the hummock that decreases from 12°C at the surface to 0°C at 50 cm depth.

James Golden's green parcel, in the quiet hummocks above the Delaware River, is literally good for nothing.

The soil in the bird hummocks was characterized by dense root system and thick A (or O) horizons (< 14 cm) generated by the dense growth of grasses and herbs, accompanied by considerably much higher SOC and N values (18% SOC, 1.1% N after 67 yrs) when compared to the surrounding moraine soils.

The book, "Saga of a Crossroads" by Eleanor Weis, says the Lenni Lenape tribe "camped on the high ground overlooking Black Brook in an area known as the hammock or hummock".