Sentence examples for prominent ridges from inspiring English sources

Many prominent ridges in the Appalachian Mountains are composed of highly resistant tilted beds of quartzite.

The house, which is situated along the prominent ridges overlooking Washington, is operated by the National Park Service and serves as a memorial to Robert E. Lee.

Two prominent ridges between 4.5 and 0 m above present day sea-level are interpreted as Viking Age jetties facilitating safe landing on an otherwise unprotected coast.

They are low-crowned, large, and strongly rooted, with as many as four prominent ridges separated by deep troughs; the teeth are much smaller and less complex, however, than those in the true elephants.

Sandstones again form prominent ridges and residuals (isolated relief features), such as Mount Lofty itself; small granite outcrops give rise to boulder-strewn surfaces; and exposures of gneiss form slablike blocks known as tombstones, monk stones, or penitent rocks.

The prominent ridges around the cavity form various caudal structures in the face and neck that are detailed below.

A prominent ridge along its equator gives it a squarish shape that has been compared to a diamond or an abacus bead.

Murray Hill, for example, used to be a prominent ridge, running from present-day Forty-sixth Street and Sixth Avenue southeast to its high point on East Thirty-seventh.

Above the tragus a prominent ridge, the helix, arises from the floor of the concha and continues as the incurved rim of the upper portion of the auricle.

A male gorilla, for example, has a prominent ridge on top of its skull to which its chewing muscles are attached.

The Galapagos shark is a ridgeback shark with a prominent ridge on the dorsal surface between the first and second dorsal fins.