The word 'mounds' is correct and usable in written English.
It can typically be used to refer to a large pile or heap of something, such as soil, sand, or objects. Example: The children built mounds of sand on the beach, using their shovels and buckets to create intricate structures.
5 Scoop six mounds of dough, the size of generous golf balls, on to the baking sheet, making sure to turn horizontally any chocolate pieces that are poking up: it will make for a more attractive cookie.
I had recently arrived in the city on a one-year fellowship, and was overwhelmed by the endless poverty around me: crippled old men begging on street corners, ragpicker women digging through open mounds of trash and children running half naked on busy streets.
You'll soon find yourself surrounded by chalk downlands rolling to the horizon, interrupted here and there by grassy burial mounds, primitive forts and the occasional white horse cut into the escarpment.
But Dr Gabet suspects other burrowing animals have the same effect, and suggests dissecting Mima mounds in different places, to see what is living in them.
He believes the builders, at least in America, are pocket gophers.This idea is not new, for Mima mounds often host pocket gophers.
Moreover, the absence of mounds in Antarctica, a continent devoid of burrowing mammals, is consistent with his hypothesis.Even with this biological explanation, however, Mima mounds still have a geological feel to them.
It seems from this that gophers shove the spoil their digging creates in an uphill direction slightly more often than in a downhill one, though why they do so is unclear.To find out if that behaviour might be enough to create mounds, Dr Gabet built a computer model which started with a landscape that varied in height just a little, and randomly.
MIMA mounds, so named after the Mima prairie in Washington state, are strange hillocks a metre or two high and up to 50 metres across that can be seen spread over the landscape in parts of every continent bar Antarctica.
Earthen mounds serves as barricades.
Even if most Mongols are not yearning for independence, Mr Hu cannot relax.In Xilinhot eight years ago the authorities removed a monument to Communist heroes which stood atop a hill in the city, and reinstated 13 Mongolian ovoo, or stone mounds, that are used in traditional worship (the original ovoo had been flattened by Mao's Red Guards).
A global comparison of garbageNOTHING evokes environmental degradation and poverty quite so vividly as pictures of slum-dwelling children scavenging through mounds of steaming waste for items to sell.
