Sentence examples for blocked mountain from inspiring English sources

Some villages were reachable only by air after landslides blocked mountain roads.

Meanwhile, new landslides blocked mountain roads in the district of Gorkha, one of the regions hit hardest on 25 April, and previously damaged buildings collapsed with the latest quake.

Some Afghan officials insist that date is too early — snow is still likely to be blocking mountain passes, potentially reducing turnout.

Snow may soon start to block mountain passes and impede the delivery of assistance.

They left their homes before the winter snows blocked the mountain passes, and walked for seventeen days before reaching Wakhan, the nearest town with a dirt road.

It served communities otherwise unable to receive television because the broadcast stations were too far away or their signals were blocked by mountain ranges.

Essentially, Death Valley is a graben, or rift valley, formed by the sinking of a tremendous expanse of rock lying between parallel uplifted, tilted-block mountain ranges to the east and west.

At the southern end of the St. Elias Mountains, on a peninsula south of the Alsek River where it enters Dry Bay, rises the unique and spectacular fault-block mountain system of the Fairweather Range.

The West Usambara mountains are a part of the Eastern Arc chain of mountains of Tanzania and Kenya, a globally important tropical montane ecoregion made up of isolated fault-block mountain complexes characterized by high biological endemism, population density, and agronomic productivity.

The broad fault-block mountain is characteristic of the basin and range plate tectonics of the high desert.

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