'ridges' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use 'ridges' when referring to the lines or bumps on the surface of something. For example: "The mountain ridges of the Sierra Nevada ran along the horizon."
020-3642 4246 sumak-travel.org The Waitukubuli Trail is a 115-mile trek across a landscape filled with deep jungle, precipitous ridges and huge waterfalls.
A study led by Noah Diffenbaugh at Stanford used modeling and statistics to find that these sorts of persistent high-pressure ridges are more likely to sit off California's coast in the presence of high levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
In short, it appears that humans are contributing to the strength of high pressure ridges off California's coast, which will tend to reduce the amount of precipitation in the state.
Another paper published this year by Simon Wang and colleagues similarly concluded that human-caused global warming is changing conditions in the Pacific Ocean that make these high-pressure ridges off the coast stronger, thus intensifying droughts in California.
Southwards, fretted ridges of the Rhinogydd rise above the long curve of Cardigan bay, visibility this fine August day clear all the way to Preseli and Penmaen Dewi.
Its family trek, Les Petits Caravaniers, starts in the Draa valley, and travels in camel convoy on the edge of the Sahara, across sand dunes and along ridges, and camping out at night, for four days.
One trick is to trap the blanket of air between two ridges that protrude a few centimetres downward from the port and starboard edges of the hull.
Among 40 killed in a commando-style attack on a crowded mosque in Rawalpindi last month was the only son of Lieutenant-General Masood Aslam, commander of Pakistan's north-western campaign.Bowling along the frontier, over castellated ridges, boulder-strewn plains and rounded limestone hills, there was much evidence of recent explosions.
Once applied, the surface of the paint takes the form of densely packed ridges or bumps, just like the microscopic bumps found on lotus leaves.
In theory, it should be possible to stimulate these ridges individually using micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, but so far nobody has tried, says Dr MacLean.For his part, Dr Hayward has been experimenting with other uses for skin stretch, and has developed a new type of haptic switch for use in mobile devices.
The ridges represent Suur Munamägi (Big Egg Mountain), the highest peak in the Baltics.
