The phrase "a high elevation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a location that is situated at a significant height above sea level.
Example: "The hikers reached a high elevation, where the air was thin and the views were breathtaking."
Alternatives: "a high altitude" or "a significant height".
They say he placed his house as he placed his mind, on a high elevation.
Evolutionary biologists reasoned that natural selection produced these adaptations as each population settled at a high elevation.
Scientists want to study the species, which has a number of singular characteristics for a Phragmipedium orchid, including its habitat at a high elevation and its unusual flowers.
The facades of the public buildings have in common a high elevation with mansard roofs; only the most important buildings have pavilions.
Jos, with a high elevation and one of the coolest climates in Nigeria, has been a hill resort since the beginning of World War II.
Built during the 1770s, in the turbulent period when Tobago changed hands between the French and the British, Fort King George is perched on a high elevation, from where its silent cannons look down on the island's largest town, Scarborough.
For a healthy adult, living in Beijing is a bit like living at a high elevation--you acclimatize to a certain extent, and might even no longer notice how it affects you day to day.
We also identified contigs that were unique to each elevation, including a high elevation-specific contig that was a positive match with the hemoglobin alpha chain from the plateau pika, a species restricted to high elevation steppes in Asia.
The researchers speculated that the Sierra Nevada had been the western edge of a high-elevation plateau that later collapsed.
It forms a high-elevation ice cap on a flat-lying plateau that has been severely truncated by erosion to form a huge massif.
Standing on a mountain plateau south of Missoula, Dr. Six and Dr. Running pointed to the devastation the beetles had wrought in the forest around them, consisting of a high-elevation species called whitebark pine.
