Sentence examples for tall ridge from inspiring English sources

Because Hong Kong Island was originally a tall ridge of hills sloping steeply down to the sea, the British began filling in parts of the harbor as early as 1851 to create flat land for building.

The lidars provided wind measurements at the base and along the slope of a 140 m tall ridge and captured air flow as it moved up and along the ridge towards an unwaked turbine under varying stability conditions.

Nearby, a gilded helmet lined in velvet and embossed with ancient battle scenes features a tall ridge along the skull from forehead to neck.

This minor deviation seems to result from the facilitated pathfinding effect by the substrate-bound NM sheet that forms a ∼100 nm tall ridge.

It could be mentioned that the porous layer formation in these cases occurs despite the increase in the total surface energy due to formation of tall ridges.

NASA has produced a 3D movie that highlights some of the asteroid Vesta's most mysterious features, including a band of tall ridges and deep grooves girdling the equator.

The scale lumen consists of a large multilayer, and the scale's upper lamina has tall ridges connected with a thick layer of cross-ribs, quite in contrast with the basic pattern of moderate ridges and thin cross-ribs.

I'm at the end of 1.7 miles of pavement, on a ridge that sticks out between a couple of taller ridges.

The lower spines of Acrocanthosaurus had attachments for powerful muscles like those of modern bison, probably forming a tall, thick ridge down its back.

The prostrate shrubs of the stone pine form dense, low thickets about one metre tall on ridges; they are mixed with deciduous shrubs of alder and service tree (Sorbus) in moister places.

The country was growing more scenic, less monotonous, opening into vistas of tall red ridges topped by stands of gnarled, wind-warped cedars.