In 1880, Mrs. A. G. F. Eliot James in "Indian Industries" wrote, "The pashm, or shawl-wool, is a downy substance, growing next to the skin and under the thick hair of those goats found in Thibet and in the elevated lands north of the Himalayas".
These highlands are a vast, uninterrupted sequence of elevated lands separated here and there by more or less isolated mountain ranges ([Rzedowski 1961]).
Get it in your headphones; gain entry to the highest rooftop or elevated land mass in your area.
Refugees have also started moving to more elevated land at Leitchor and extra sites above floodplains are being made available near both camps, he says.
For example, Indonesia's nature reserves and indigenous communities occupy elevated land and are a limiting factor to Indonesia's coffee growing area.
Such conditions are satisfied in areas in which major ice sheets or cold elevated land surfaces border warmer large bodies of water.
Nesting sites on paddy field bunds and marshy wasteland had a common feature in that they were on elevated land within an inundated area.
The house dates from 1858; its site, on elevated land that would have been attractive to prehistoric Indians, has yielded artifacts dating from the Middle Archaic Stage, around 3500 B.C.
The high school is only a mile from the ocean, but it has been an evacuation center during at least eight past hurricanes because it's on elevated land, Strawderman said.
But on the slopes of Harney Peak, a mountain that marks the high point in the Black Hills, on a trip last spring, the elevated land made no attempt to get with the season: A storm two days before had dropped more than three feet of snow in the woods, blanketing boulders and trees, and burying trails that I had plans to hike.
However, other sections, such as warm and ice-rich or -saturated permafrost, particularly in the sections in wetlands, ground improvement measures such as elevated land bridges and passive or proactive cooling techniques need to be applied to ensure the long-term stability of thermally unstable, thick permafrost subsoils, and/or refill with non-frost-susceptible soils.
