From glacial falls to untamed highlands, Europe's great outdoors is exactly that.
Late Glacial records from S Brazilian highlands document the predominance of grassland (campos) where today Araucaria forests occur.
We hypothesize that smoothing of highlands by efficient glacial and periglacial erosion, coupled with potential river captures and conveyance of sediments via external drainage, can yield an apparently continuous low-relief plateau landscape formed diachronously at high elevation.
Inherited, glacial landforms, such as lateral moraines, highland plateau and exhumed U shaped-valleys, are now being exposed in north Keller by ice shrinkage of former ice protecting cover.
Considerable geomorphological work has been undertaken on periglacial and possible glacial landforms found in the eastern Lesotho highlands.
On a cool April morning, Anita Harris of the U.S. Geological Survey, began a trip on Interstate 80 from the Precambrian highlands of New Jersey to the glacial landscapes of northern Indiana.
The river valley is bordered by gneiss and granite highlands and shale lowlands and underlain by glacial deposits over faulted dolomites and the Franklin Marble.
Similar first-order geomorphological features, relating to 'restricted' glacial conditions, are likely to be preserved in subglacial highlands under interior parts of modern ice sheets.
The Riss Glacial Stage, during which mountain glaciers descended from the highlands, followed the Mindel-Riss Interglacial Stage and preceded the Riss-Würm Interglacial Stage, both periods of relatively moderate climatic conditions.
Experienced riders can join local farmers on a spectacular three-day ride, driving hundreds of horses down from the upper highland moors to the milder valleys and glacial lakes of the wild north-east.
Vertical climatic zones are particularly well-defined in the Andes, ranging from humid to warm (tierra caliente) at the base or foothills; temperate and semi-humid (tierra templada) at mid-level; cool and dry (tierra fría) in the highlands; and cold to freezing (tierra helada) in the glacial summit areas.
