Sentence examples for coast plain from inspiring English sources

Izapa, type site of the Izapan civilization, is a huge temple centre near modern Tapachula, Chiapas, on the hot Pacific coast plain.

On the southern Gulf coast plain, Olmec traditions seemed to have lasted into the Early Classic and merged with Teotihuacán artistic canons to produce new kinds of art.

Within a zone only 75 miles long and 30 miles wide, on the Pacific coast plain of Guatemala, is a cluster of nine compactly built ceremonial centres that together form the Cotzumalhuapa civilization.

Further down the Gulf coast plain, the Remojadas tradition of hollow pottery figurines continued to be active in the Late Classic, with a particularly large production of the mysterious smiling figures of dancing boys and girls, which were intended as funerary offerings.

The mountain chain (Serra do Mar) is defined by a relief of 1100 m and the Atlantic coast plain is defined by a relief with an average elevation of 5 m above sea level and with low-lying bays and estuaries (average elevation of ~1 m above sea level) (IPT 2005, 2009).

The terrestrial cave fauna differs along the length of the range, and between the coast and the range, with one terrestrial species, a troglobitic micro-whipscorpion, found on the east coast plain and Barrow Island, like Stygiocaris [85].

"TOTEM POLES, CARVINGS AND CANOES," a scavenger hunt through the galleries devoted to Peoples of the Pacific, Northwest Coast, Plains and Eastern Woodlands, tomorrow at 10 30 a.m. and 12 30 p.m. at the American Museum of Natural History.

The interpolation is done as follows: First, based on the coastal geological environment, the primary partitions is to classify coastal zones into bedrock coasts and plain coasts (Dürr et al. 2011).

Its area includes a large portion of West Malaysia's west-coast plains and centres upon the Perak River, which flows north-to-south between the Keledang Range to the east and the Bintang Range to the west; both of these mountain ranges lie east of the west-coast plains.

At this point four years ago, nary a soothsayer on the coasts, plains or windswept tundra foretold her astonishing Iditarod: from moose's worst enemy to John McCain's best hope, and from Katie Couric's quarry to — this week — her competition.

Unlike most of the Norwegian coast, the plain is not protected by islands; instead, a dangerous reef, Jærens Rev, lies about 3 miles (5 km) offshore.