Sentence examples for interior terrain from inspiring English sources

Levenson is at his best in his geographical descriptions, as well as in the trickier ones of his characters' interior terrain.

The interior terrain comprises high plains and rolling hills; about three-fourths of the country lies between about 1,600 and 5,000 feet (500 and 1,500 metres) above sea level.

Geological mapping has revealed, however, that in many cases young dunes did advance inland onto interior terrain, overstepping older dune ridges.

Moreover, the somewhat later development of the Cordilleran glacier (after 19,000 20,000 years ago) suggests that interior terrain between the two continental glaciers may have remained open longer than generally assumed in the north, with the late LGM appearance of the ice-free corridor in the south preceding that in the north (Dyke 2004).

The project was a spectacular departure for the survey, an agency founded to map and chart the coasts and waterways, not the interior or the terrain.

The hot interior of the terrain may have mitigated the horizontal compression by the global cooling, as was suggested for the fresh grabens by Watters et al.

These faults with parallel ridges expelled from the interior cross complex terrain with valleys in the equatorial region.

The semi-translucent exterior shell reintroduces the terrestrial concept of interior-to-exterior gradients, challenging common assumptions that extraterrestrial habitats require visually impenetrable barriers which divorce the interior from the surrounding terrain.

Scott disagreed, contending that the fort should not be in the state's interior and that the hilly terrain around Frankfort was unsuitable for constructing a fort.

The Markham Valley is part of a flat, elongated depression varying from 8-32 km wide that cuts through the otherwise mountainous terrain of the interior of New Guinea, running from the mouth of the Markham near the port of Lae, to that of the Ramu some 600 km away.

Whenever possible, ecoenvironments (surrounding terrain and home interior) of patients with typical macules associated with the comet sign were investigated.