Sentence examples for extensive inland from inspiring English sources

With the completion in 1918 of the New York State Barge Canal System (now called the New York State Canal System), which incorporated the old Erie Canal, New York had the country's most extensive inland waterway system.

But with so much water coming at once, and with tides running two to five feet above normal, the water piling up in inlets, rivers and bays will have nowhere to drain, potentially resulting in extensive inland flooding, forecasters said.

The Midwest is blessed with vast expanse of fertile land and great human talent as nowhere else in the world, coupled with an extensive inland waterway system permitting crop production to reach world markets.

Steel production and diversified chemical manufacturing constitute the other basic industries of the region, which is served by an extensive inland-waterway system and one of Europe's densest railway networks.

There is increasing evidence for extensive desertification in inland Asia that began near the Oligocene/Miocene boundary at ca. 23 Ma (e.g., Guo et al. 2002; Sun et al. 2010b; Zheng et al. 2015).

This alluvial plain that was once an extensive bay extending inland from the ocean is bounded on two sides by mountains in one of the most geographically unusual orientations in all of North America.

Areas of BU and RRV/BFV endemicity overlap geographically, but areas with RRV and BFV are more extensive and include inland river systems where BU has not so far been reported.

Wind-related damage extended into inland Alabama and Georgia.

In addition, many major crude-oil-receiving ports have extensive pipeline distribution networks to inland refineries.

It was one thing to throw together a few cacti and some scorpions, but an inland sea and extensive swamps called for advanced engineering, and almost certainly a rearrangement of the yearly budget.

In coastal areas the most fertile soils are of relatively recent alluvial or volcanic origin, while the gray-brown and black cracking clays of the central inland lowlands support extensive grasslands.