Sentence examples for shaped mountains from inspiring English sources

This meant another slave (with disabled arms) kicked the potter's wheel while Dave shaped mountains of clay.

For centuries, Christians framed rational inquiry into the origin of topography around theories for how Noah's Flood shaped mountains and carved valleys.

I would say no, but there was one plane brought down by turbulence back in the beginning of the jet era when a British Airlines plane was making a sightseeing pass of Mt. Fuji and there was a very strong jet stream going by Mt. Fuji -- and it's a very uniquely shaped mountain -- and they got into some turbulence situation that broke the plane apart.

Wind, water, pressure, minerals, heat, and lesser-understood forces mold and shape our environment, carving out caves and canyons, flooding and drying lakes, shaping mountains, shifting shorelines, moving the ground beneath our feet, and creating all manner of strange formations.

Erosion by glacial and fluvial processes shapes mountain landscapes in a long-recognized and characteristic way.

Distinct alpine landforms in most high to mid-latitude mountain chains highlight the importance of glacial erosion in shaping mountain topography.

The highest-resolution images showed a relatively young surface punctuated by oddly shaped pits, mountains taller than Mount Everest, and features resembling volcanic lava flows.

Today, this range of beehive-shaped mountains has become an icon of the Australian outback, protected by the Purnululu National Park, the fringes of which host a growing number of bush camps.

It was an unrelenting wind, the kind that fells trees, shapes mountains and drives people to their firesides.

They're delightful: graphically vivid, with floating, semi-abstract shapes — mountains, houses, meadows — firmly pinned down by figures and trees.

This tectonic activity began approximately 20 16 Ma ago, from the Zagros Mountains piedmont region to the Dezful Depression where the oil field is located, which contributed to the typical Zagros anticlines manifested in the form of large-amplitude asymmetric whaleback-shaped mountains (Colman 1978; Berberian and King 1981; Sherkati and Letouzeh 2004; Alavi 1982, 1994, 2004).