Sentence examples for below the alpine from inspiring English sources

Below the Alpine massif lay rounded hills carpeted in pale-green pasture, intersected by rivulets of glacial water that sparkled silver in the sun.

More shallow slabs imaged below the Alpine arc are interpreted as subducted continental lower lithosphere.

In contrast, below the Alpine area and the Molasse Basin the upper crystalline crust is far thinner and may locally be only 6 km thick.

The crystalline crust and the Tauern Body produce radiogenic heat adding to the total heat budget and is thinner below the Alpine foreland than below and within the orogen.

Historically, New Zealand was dominated by forest below the alpine treeline, but about 1000 years of Polynesian and European colonisation has resulted in the destruction of nearly three-quarters of the indigenous forest cover.

A relatively narrow belt of intermediate or mixed vegetation the subalpine usually exists between the forests below and the alpine vegetation above.

Wild boars still roam the Alpine region below the summit, and there are some dense woods of beech and pine.

A short traverse, a squeeze through a gate and out of bounds, and our small group was on United States Forest Service land, free to ski into the alpine bliss below.

Classic examples of the continental margin and ocean basin deposits include the late Precambrian Ocoee Supergroup and Ordovician Martinsburg Formation of the Appalachians, the Jurassic and Cretaceous Franciscan Formation of the Pacific Coast Ranges of California, much of the Alpine flysch (see below) of Switzerland and France, and many of the famous turbidite sands found in the Italian Apennines.

Despite the alpine environments well below 5000 feet in New Hampshire and Maine, some higher places further south are not alpine.

Unemployment is below 5percentnt, inflation is almost zero and the Alpine republic is now the world's seventh richest industrial state.