Sentence examples for major topographic systems from inspiring English sources

Submarine canyons are major topographic systems that enhance the heterogeneity of continental slopes [150].

Apart from the three elevation zones already mentioned, it is possible on the basis of geologic structure, climatic conditions, and differences in geomorphologic development to divide China into three major topographic regions: the eastern, northwestern, and southwestern zones.

The major topographic feature of the South China Sea is a deep, rhombus-shaped basin in the eastern portion, with reef-studded shoal areas rising up steeply within the basin to the south and northwest.

The regional model includes the East Asian coastlines and major topographic features such as abyssal rises and trenches.

Although it ranks among the major topographic structures of the Caribbean, Saba Bank is one of the most poorly known.

The northern Brazilian margin has several major topographic highs that form the North Brazilian Ridge and several scattered seamounts rising from the ocean floor.

Seamounts are major topographic features of all ocean basins and are defined as undersea mountains rising more than 100 m from the seafloor without breaking the sea surface [1].

Both types of markers support the existence of four distinct and geographically congruent genetic groups, which are consistent with major topographic barriers.

However, each hybrid zone sampled is geographically isolated from one another, with some on opposite sides of South America and separated by major topographic features.

Pennsylvania has three major river systems.

The topographic reference system for our descriptions is based upon Lovén's system [ 29] as depicted in Figure 1 A, B [ambulacra I-V (Amb I-V) and interambulacra 1-5 (IAmb 1-5)].