The Pinheiros, once an exuberantly curved, classically serpentine plains river, has been channelled into long straight stretches since the 1940s, and to this day, receives discharges of raw sewage at various points along its sluggish, fetid trajectory – including, according to De Campos, from the chic Cidade Jardim shopping centre.
Environmental research of ancient landscapes in the coastal plains, river valleys and uplands of the Mediterranean shows how erosion and sedimentation studies play a significant role in the evaluation of the archaeological record at the regional and local scales.
The routes pass through a variety of landscapes, from the North Island's central volcanic plateau and high-country grasslands, to ancient forests, farmed plains, river valleys, estuaries and coastal dunes, most following routes once frequented by railway carriages, bush trams, loggers, miners and stock drovers.
Caucasian peoples, various ethnic groups living in the Caucasus, a geographically complex area of mountain ranges, plateaus, foothills, plains, rivers, and lakes, with grasslands, forests, marshes, and dry steppes.
They certify that "in those regions there are mountains, plains, rivers, lakes, brooks, rills, trees, flowers, birds, beasts and every attribute of the most admired portions of this lower sphere".
Buildings, houses, shops, restaurants, bowling alleys, snack stands, and other facilities, as well as parks, beaches, mountains, deserts, tundras, taigas, savannahs, plains, rivers, veldts, meadows, and all the other features of the geophysical world, become startlingly and convincingly real when you go to them.
By transforming the novel's largely functional descriptions of the natural environment to the fierce wintry features of mountains, plains, rivers and waterfalls, the entire landscape of the movie becomes a character in itself – helping to focus more fully on the survival struggles of the character Hugh Glass, the main protagonist superbly played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
When the ice melted, it exposed new flood plains, rivers and ponds.
Results of this study are the first to quantify the widespread hydrologic alteration of Great Plains rivers following impoundment.
The goal of this analysis was to evaluate the pre and post-impact hydrologic regimes of Great Plains rivers.
The study was conducted in the Wen-Rui Tang River, a typical coastal plain river network, located in Wenzhou, eastern China.
