Mr. Vaes's backdrop depicts a high cliff rising over a turbulent lake.
I couldn't see the cliff rising on one side or the drop-off on the other.
In the dry areas of western North America, Cercocarpus (mountain mahogany), Cowania (cliff rose), and Purshia (bitterbrush) are important browse plants for deer and other mammals.
In the cool, crystalline air of central Afghanistan, a sheer sandstone cliff rises dramatically from the floor of a high plateau.
Its looming granite cliff rises 763feett from the lake and, the guidebooks say, was holy to American Indians, whose legends turned it into the petrified corpse of a giant, sin-avenging moose.
The cliff rises steep behind it, and one catches sight, here and there, of the dark cracks of natural caves such as the one in which the first scrolls were found.
As they drove up the one-lane rutted switchbacks, with a sheer drop of 2,000 feet on one side and a 1,500-foot 1,500-footng on the other, they watcliffplants appearising each new elevation, as giantheuccas gave way totherves and oaks.
Exposure of small roots (< 5 mm diameter) of <span class="lh">cliff rose (Purshia stansburiana) directly overlying bare bedrock surfaces indicates that the process of denudation is ongoing and probably expanding in ecotonal areas.
At the western side of the island facing the South China Sea, the LPT cliff rises up to 28 m amsl, while at the eastern coast, the LPT margin exhibits a broad gently sloping surface that rises from 7 to 20 m amsl.
