Sentence examples for ancient inland from inspiring English sources

Isauria, ancient inland district of south-central Anatolia.

But the family's shocking demise was a stark reminder of a hidden menace under many parts of Quebec, one that dates back 10,000 years to an ancient inland sea.

Yet, sedimentary deposits laid down in ancient inland seas are widely acknowledged to account for much continental bedrock, and they underlie and create vast structural plains in areas such as Australia.

There's been a haze in the sky from a bush fire to the east, the gray-blue wall of color giving me the sense that I'm socked in and alone on the edge of an ancient inland sea.

Eospermatopteris, genus of plants known from fossil stumps discovered in the 1870s near Gilboa, N.Y., U.S. Eospermatopteris trunks were discovered upright, as they would have grown in life, and occurred in dense stands in the marshy lowlands near an ancient inland sea.

With governments, including the Obama administration, seeking to increase fuel efficiency and reduce their dependence on imported oil, private companies are focusing their attention on this desolate corner of the Andes, where Quechua-speaking Indians subsist on the remains of an ancient inland sea by bartering the salt they carry out on llama caravans.

Approximately 2.5 km east of the refinery, the topography changes (due to Lake Bonneville, an ancient parent inland sea), whereas at 2.5 km west of the refinery the land use transitions from mixed suburban and agricultural use to solely agricultural use.

After searching all day for ancient beaches miles inland from the modern shoreline, they were about to give up.

In ancient Tire, an inland town some 25 miles from Ephesus, my guides at the Tuesday market, said to be Turkey's largest, were the Cakirs — father Lutfi and son Serkan — of Kaplan Dag Restoran.

There is a monastic silence in the small, ancient towns of inland Istria, where shards of dusty white limestone crunched under our tires and echoed down the narrow alleyways.

Head to the West Wight, where the dramatic seascapes from Tennyson Down and the ancient burial sites and forests inland make for interesting walking.