Sentence examples for elevated terrain from inspiring English sources

Essentially, the elevated terrain affects the atmosphere as if it were an anticyclone, a centre of high pressure.

These showers occur particularly on islands with elevated terrain features that interrupt the flow of the warm moist air.

Clouds occur most frequently in this portion of the troposphere, though fog and clouds that impinge or develop over elevated terrain often occur at lower levels.

The topography of a mountain belt depends not only on the processes that create the elevated terrain but also on the forces that support this terrain and on the types of processes (erosional or tectonic) that destroy it.

The Lausche Hill is one of at least six volcanoes in the Lausitz Mountains which show an eminent low level of erosion despite their Oligocene age and position on elevated terrain.

Those crossing included marines from the First Marine Division, who entered Iraq after a barrage of artillery fire, much of which was directed at Safwan Hill, the only elevated terrain in the flat, barren desert on either side of the border.

Though it may sound like a foolish utopia, this could actually happen with the help of intelligent material that will elevate the terrain on the basis of pre-programmed parameters.

The diameter of the crater relative to that of the meteorite depends on several factors, but it is thought for most craters to be about 10 to 1. Excavated material surrounds the crater, causing its rim to be elevated above the surrounding terrain.

So in the video above they "Create mountains by pulling them out of the screen, draw rivers with your fingers, elevate an entire terrain to see a cut section view".

In most mountain belts, terrains have been elevated as a result of crustal shortening by the thrusting of one block or slice of crust over another and/or by the folding of layers of rock.

In southern São Paulo the Serra do Mar is characterized by three distinct terrain types: 1) highly dissected areas with closely spaced ridges and accordant summit heights; 2) multiconvex hills; and 3) terrains with highly elevated watershed areas, irregular summit heights, and locally subdued relief.