Sentence examples for mountainous ridges from inspiring English sources

These consist of mountainous ridges, in places intersected by deep valleys and generally surrounded by lowlands.

The climate of the northern Yucatán is hot and dry, and the absence of high mountainous ridges to intercept the moisture-bearing clouds from the Atlantic results in a limited rainfall.

When they did so, they observed structures in the cooling wax that looked suspiciously like the "transform faults" that cross the mountainous ridges which run through the middle of most of the earth's ocean floors.These ridges are boundaries between individual plates.

These slopes are generally found on mountainous ridges.

The mountainous ridges observed in some regions can be explained as heavily degraded scarps of large multi-ring impact structures or as a result of the global contraction due to the slow cooling of the interior.

For instance, males of Hemipepsis ustulata Dahlbom (Pompilidae), the tarantula hawk wasp, defend trees (which do not contain resources that females can utilise) occurring on mountainous ridges.

The mountainous ridge-and-valley terrain includes Buffalo, Paddy, and Nittany mountains and is drained by Penns, Buffalo, and White Deer creeks.

The mountainous ridge-and-valley terrain is drained by the Juniata River and Sherman, Buffalo, and Fishing creeks.

On the Ugandan side of the border with South Sudan, below a mountainous ridge along the Nile, is a village called Odrupele by locals.

Stitched together in 2003, using an existing network of dirt roads and trails, the footpath passes through wildly varied landscapes, from painted deserts to mountainous ridge lines and towering ponderosa pine forests.

Campbell suggests that Argyll and Antrim formed a "maritime province", united by the sea and isolated from the rest of Scotland by the mountainous ridge called the Druim Alban.