Located on the northerly edge of the North China Plain, Beijing is ringed by mountains ranging up to a height of approximately 900 m.
Deputies from the Hemet substation of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department confiscated the illegal harvest of marijuana plants ranging from seedlings to a height of about two feet, and 200 pounds of packaged marijuana, sheriff's spokesman Lindsey Lowery said.
After decades of isolation, the mountain range, which rises to a height of 5,377 feet, is unspoiled, with stunning peaks, pristine ponds and lakes, unusual rock formations and hundreds of cascading waterfalls.
These are thin spires of rock that protrude from the ground and range from a height of about 1.5 to 4.5 meters.
Our host at the beachside cafe talked of the Severn's tidal range, which can rise to a height of 15 metres (50ft), and of controversial plans to harness its elemental force with a barrage which would alter the balance of the environment.
To the north, Rajbari Tila at 274 m and Sajidhala at 244 m are the highest peaks in this range, which drops abruptly to a height of less than 92 m in the vicinity of Chittagong City to the south.
The cone of the extinct Mkinvari (Kazbek) volcano dominates the northernmost Bokovoy range from a height of 16,512 feet.
Around the same time, the Nevadan orogeny built the Nevadan mountain range (also called the Ancestral Sierra Nevada) to a height of 15000 feet.
To the south the Ile Alataū (Trans-Ili) Range rises abruptly above the Ili depression to a height of 16,315 feet (4,973 metres).
The range reaches a height of 12,900 feet (3,932 m) and makes a gentle double bend, reflected in the outline of the southern shore of the Black Sea.
Tenasserim is dominated by the Tenasserim Range, which reaches a height of 6,801 feet (2,074 m), and is bisected by the Great Tenasserim River, which flows south to the Andaman Sea.
