Sentence examples for mountain crest from inspiring English sources
He had also wanted to drive over the mountain crest, but on returning from the waterfall, had no time left.
The forest becomes more scattered and stunted south of the mountain crest, and annual plants are less frequent.
Russia believes its Siberian shelf is directly linked to the Lomonosov ridge, an underwater mountain crest that runs 1,240 miles across the polar region.
The dead were among a group of backcountry skiers climbing above the tree line to the mountain crest and then skiing down.
Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Department of Energy via Reuters The north end of the Yucca Mountain crest in Nevada, 1993.
The modern network of small but politically important communes stands out in the parallel relief of the Jura and the Alps, as the boundaries of the communes are generally drawn from one mountain crest to the next.
Most of Kyrgyzstan's borders run along mountain crests.
The air mass of such a wind is cooled adiabatically as it passes upward to the mountain crests, which precipitates either rain or snow and retards the rate of cooling.
During the medieval period the principalities of Walachia and Moldavia, which united in 1859 to form the state of Romania, were independent feudal states, with mountain crests marking a political frontier.
That is why giant failures of mountain crests have mainly occurred in areas of tectonic activity.
The scarps of these normal faults bound five discrete valleys and exhibit hundreds of meters of topographic relief between the valley floors and mountain crests.
