Sentence examples for low-lying inland from inspiring English sources

This part of the Brazilian Atlantic margin is morphologically characterized by inland and coastal plateaus surrounding a wide low-lying inland region, the Sertaneja Depression.

Trees of the wet, low-lying inland forests include Barringtonia (of the Lecythidaceae, or Brazil nut, family) and Terminalia (a source of fine wood for cabinetry and boatbuilding), as well as various types of ebony (Diospyros).

This is demonstrated in Fig. 3. Mean shortest route between pairs of low-lying, inland farms is usually less than about 50% longer than Euclidean distance (yellow).

Volunteers rushed to plug waters pouring in through backed up storm sewers, which flooded low-lying areas inland from the river.

In Kamaishi the tsunami inundated the port area and low-lying areas inland, killing hundreds of people and causing widespread property damage.

Falkirk, council area, east-central Scotland, encompassing a mostly low-lying area extending inland from the south bank of the River Forth estuary.

By midday, a tsunami warning — which directs residents of low-lying regions to move inland and to higher ground — had been lifted for most of Hawaii, and people around the state were returning to homes, hotels and beaches.

Average annual coastal temperatures reach 10.5 °C and in low lying inland areas, lower.

The exodus of cars and trucks, some with furniture lashed down on their roofs, began in low-lying areas but quickly spread inland as the storm intensified and threatened to become the worst natural disaster here in decades.

The coasts of Yamal are mainly low-lying and sandy, whereas the inland region, rising in the south to a maximum height of 300 feet (90 metres), has an irregular surface much affected by marine and glacial deposition.

On Sand, Eastern, and Laysan Island, when sea-level rise = 1.5 m and 2.0 m, the flooding patterns start to diverge considerably from passive inundation patterns, as water levels begin to exceed the existing coastal berm and extend considerable distances inland over low-lying areas.