Continental uplifts with their mountain ranges, plains and depressions contrast with deep ocean basins fractured by shifting tectonic plates and massive crustal upswellings.
It is hard to miss the magical sense of place that haunts this country's deserts, mountain ranges, plains and rain forests.
Southeast Asia's landscape is characterized by three intermingled physical elements: mountain ranges, plains and plateaus, and water in the form of both shallow seas and extensive drainage systems.
Because Beijing stands at the apex of the triangle, it is a natural gateway on the long-distance land communication route between the North China Plain and the northern ranges, plains, and plateaus, and routes running across the great plain naturally converge on the city.
Interestingly, the onset in California was earlier than in 3 populous Eastern states, suggesting that in addition to population factors also geographical and climate factors, such as:, mountain ranges, plains, lakes, and predominant wind direction may drive early epidemic activity.
Fire weather watches and red flag warnings were in effect in many parts of Colorado, including the Front Range, Eastern Plains and southwestern Colorado.
My horse was called Aonikink, named after the Paleo-Indians who once ranged these plains.
Gazelles once ranged the plains in large numbers, but unrestricted hunting decimated them.
The Fox caddies range from plain (especially in the early 1700's) to fancy, from Neo-Classical to Rococo.
The ocean floor here is about 4,000 metres down, and the ship's acoustic sensors tell us that we're passing over mountain ranges, great plains, and giant sand dunes hundreds of metres high.
