"rising terrain" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to describe the physical geography of an area such as hills or mountains with an increasing elevation. For example: "We drove through the rising terrain of the Rocky Mountains."
The rising terrain eats at the altitude from below while providing few places to land.
In early June, one tanker attempting a low-altitude bombing run in western Utah hit the rising terrain and crashed, killing the two pilots on board.
While hang gliders usually are launched from a high point and descend, sailplane gliders can soar for hours on the lift from thermals and rising air due to rising terrain.
Mountains create their own weather systems and present a suite of phenomena like lake effect and orographic lift, which is the forcing of air to rise by rising terrain, like a mountain.
Similar studies elsewhere especially in the western end of the Himalayas, where gorges bisect the rugged landscape may reveal whether rising terrain truly triggers increased erosion rates.
But it's also several million years after the Tsangpo Gorge first formed, according to previous studies, which carves a big hole in the notion that rapidly rising terrain in that region of the Himalayas sparked the growth of the gorge.
He wrote a series of books on the geology of the western United States, which include Basin and Range (1981), In Suspect Terrain (1983), Rising from the Plains (1986), and Assembling California (1993).
Southwesterly monsoon currents channel moist air toward the eastern Himalayas, where the moisture rising over the steep terrain cools and condenses to fall as rain or snow; in June, therefore, Darjiling receives about 24 inches (600 mm) and Mussoorie less than 8 inches (200 mm).
For quite some time, the garbage mountain of Puente Hills has been rising above its surrounding terrain, resembling nothing more than a huge and eerily modern version of an ancient tell those giant mounds in the Middle Eastern deserts that mark where once-mighty cities rose and fell, and that now lie buried and broken beneath the sands.
The terrain rises from lowlands in the northeast to the Adirondack Mountains in the southwest.
The terrain rises from lowlands near Lake Erie to rolling hills in the east.
