The school was at the top of a hill, overlooking the town, the swift-moving river spanned by a stone bridge.
Not a single river spans the state, although more than 160 mountain ranges run from north to south, dividing the land into some ninety basins and making a topographic map of Nevada look like what geographer C. E. Dutton called an "army of caterpillars crawling toward Mexico".
The Yangtze River provides a good opportunity to test how climate and tectonic compete with one another to control erosion because this river spans a wide range of landscapes that experience quite different climatic and tectonic forcing (e.g., Chen et al. 2001a, b; Clark et al. 2004).
Further south, the flood waters stretch between the Flinders and Norman rivers, spanning approximately 80km in width at the widest point.
Water, sediment, and native fish and shrimp species were sampled in 13 rivers spanning broad watershed land-use characteristics during 2009 2010.
The old road has in large part been absorbed by I-40 (where you won't necessarily see signs for Route 66), which plunges westward with a humorless efficiency -- sides of hills blasted away, rivers spanned, small towns skirted as if they were tar pits threatening the march of progress.
Founded by families from Kahnawake in the mid-1700s, it straddles Ontario, Quebec, and New York state a river-spanning a confluence of borders that's made Akwesasne a locus for cross-border tobacco and weed smuggling.
The δ13C values of modern river samples span a large range from -34.2 to -8.9‰. Figure 3 Radiocarbon dating of water, aquatic plants and animals.
Its limestone houses rise up the steep side of a valley, and the river is spanned by a medieval bridge complete with chapel.
There the river is spanned by the modern Severin Bridge and by the rebuilt Hohenzollern railway bridge, which carries the line from Aachen to Düsseldorf and the Ruhr industrial region.
