Sentence examples for narrow belts from inspiring English sources

Collision zones are thus commonly identified by narrow belts of elevated crystalline terrain and parallel fold and thrust belts.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Collision zones are thus commonly identified by narrow belts of elevated crystalline terrain and parallel fold and thrust belts.

In the oceans, new seafloor, created at the globe-circling oceanic ridges, moves away, cools, and sinks back into the mantle in what are known as subduction zones (i.e., long, narrow belts at which one plate descends beneath another).

Paradoxically, higher aircraft speeds failed to eliminate the problem of wind drift, because jet aircraft fly higher as well as faster and, above 20,000 feet (6,100 metres), very narrow belts of wind known as jet streams, which travel at speeds of 100 or 200 knots—occur under certain meteorological conditions.

In central and southern regions and in the narrow belts along the valleys of the mountains, about half the land is under scrub of various kinds; and maquis the classic Mediterranean scrub, with oleander, bay, evergreen oak, olive, and juniper is especially prevalent in the Pelopónnisos.

Acacia shrubs grow around the few hills and in narrow belts along seasonal water sources.

They dot a narrow belt of desert stretching from Angola through Namibia into northern South Africa.

Akwapim-Togo Ranges, narrow belt of ridges and hills in Ghana, western Africa.

Nearly all of its 32.2m people cling to a narrow belt along its border with the United States.

They occur, with rare exceptions, in a narrow belt of space between four and six feet above the pavement.

A fairly fertile but relatively narrow belt encircles the island and surrounds the shallow inland Buada Lagoon.