Between the ridges, rivers such as the Lima and the Cávado flow through deep gorges or in flat-floored valleys.
IT'S not hard to understand why Puritan settlers in Connecticut slapped the Devil's name on so many ridges, rivers and gorges.
Sixteen miles long and 13 wide, it is a spread of plains, ravines, ridges, rivers, forests and sheet-rock cliffs dominated by some 20 massive grey peaks.
In giving recommendations for boundary changes over the years, the Committee has considered various factors, including using hill ridges, rivers and roads as boundaries rather than arbitrarily drawn lines; and the need for electoral divisions to have approximately equal numbers of voters so that electors' votes carry the same weight regardless of where they cast their ballots.
Study areas were bounded by landscape features such as mountain ridges, rivers, and nonforested habitat.
In the Low Arctic, most land surfaces are fully vegetated, with the exception of rock outcrops, dry ridge tops, river gravel bars, and scree slopes (those slopes that have an accumulation of rocky debris at the angle of repose).
The highways in Spain — after years of investment — are velvety, tunneling through or bridging over any ridge or river in the way, making drive tours about as easy as it gets.
The hills rear and plunge in endless vistas of ridges and river gorges.
An airplane and a helicopter circled in the sky, their pilots squinting above the ridges, woodlands, river canyons and meadows.
Based on Roger Smith's work over the last few days, we now have a good idea of the local sequence of rocks, or stratigraphy, of the area, as well as how exposures of those rocks tend to be situated relative to local geographic features, like ridges or river beds.
