Sentence examples for open plateau from inspiring English sources

On the edge of the tiny oasis, we were a short walk from the lower pools sheltered in the cluster of palms, and the middle springs, on an open plateau overlooking the valley.

He said these sites, including a large, open plateau known as the Monastery and probably "used for various cultic displays or political activities", are the closest parallel to the newly discovered edifice.

There is an open plateau, which is not as high as the Mendips.

The vigour of the English assault, however, was such that they threatened to break through the line of the villages and out onto the open plateau of Mont St André beyond.

Advancing along the ridge from No.2 Post, they reached a position on the open plateau to the north of No.3 Post, but neither of the relieving squadrons could break through the Turkish lines, and were confronted by heavy Turkish fire from the surrounding higher ground.

Both of the river's two main upper branches, the Black and White Voltas, rise in the open plateaus of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) and unite in north-central Ghana some 300 miles (480 km) north of the sea.

Orthopedic conditions that utilize external materials to aid in fracture healing include screw augmentation, open tibial plateau fractures, and vertebroplasty.

While the Roman presence was always strong in the Alps, where the crucial North-South connection had to be kept open, the Swiss plateau was not really Romanized until decades after the conquest.

Second, body weights of the former hamsters increased monotonically whereas the latter animals reached an early plateau (open and closed circles, Fig. 3D).

Some studies have claimed that increased tibial slope will redistribute tibiofemoral contact pressures posteriorly on the tibial plateau, open the osteotomy anteriorly, and increase anterior tibial translation and subluxation [ 15, 28, 29].

Suddenly, as if a curtain had dropped, the panorama of a blood-red sunset on the vast brown Columbia Plateau opened up -- a sobering view for weary pioneers.