Sentence examples for alpine zone from inspiring English sources

Higher, an alpine zone begins, with granite bluffs and meadows at the elbows of big lakes.

A sign 10 minutes up read: "Welcome to the Alpine Zone.

Mr. Larson has a science background and has presented on Mansfield's alpine zone at ecological conferences.

The alpine zone lies above 6,600 feet, with stunted grass providing good summer pastures.

"But the alpine zone here has some of the same adapted flora, evolved to withstand climatic extremes".

Temperate forest zone represents the highest intactness (56.6%), followed by subtropical zone (19.2%), tropical zone (18.6%) and alpine zone (5.6%).

Mount Elgon reaches into the Afro-Alpine zone, as do the summits of the Aberdare Range.

Rainfall decreases above a cloud ceiling at about 10,000 feet, especially on Kilimanjaro, where the Afro-Alpine zone is a veritable desert.

Above the bamboo forest and the wooded parkland, the Virunga Mountains extend into the heather zone and, in the three highest volcanoes, into the Afro-Alpine zone.

Lombardy is divided physically into three parts from north to south a mountainous Alpine and pre-Alpine zone; a zone of gently undulating foothills; and a zone of alluvial plains sloping gently to the Po River in the south.

The succession of soils is from the raw mineral type of the summit area, through the dark peaty loams of the Afro-Alpine zone and the strong brown loams of high organic content in the forest belt, to the ferruginous (iron-bearing) soils of the lower slopes.