Sentence examples for underground mountain from inspiring English sources

The Kitzsteinhorn system was built in 1974 and is described as the world's first underground mountain railway.

In any case, Ninfa has plenty of water, for the ruins sit on a lake fed by an underground mountain stream.

Avery Island was formed by being the peak of an underground mountain of salt said to be bigger than Mt. Everest.

Between the prison and the preserve, Coiba, which is part of the same underground mountain chain that includes the Galápagos Islands, was never commercially developed, and over 85 percent of the forest remains primary growth.

A qanāt taps underground mountain water sources trapped in and beneath the upper reaches of alluvial fans and channels the water downhill through a series of gently sloping tunnels, often several kilometres long, to the places where it is needed for irrigation and domestic use.

"It is almost impossible to decipher the detailed history of a rock, let alone predict reactions into the geologic future," Dr. Macfarlane wrote in "Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste," a collection of scholarly articles published in 2006 that she jointly edited.

270 pp. ISBN: 0-309-10093-3, $39 UncertaintYuccaerground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste Allison Macfarlaneane, Rodney C. Ewing, eds.

In his Miho Museum (1997) in Shiga, Japan, Pei achieved a harmony between the building, much of it underground, and its mountain environment.

The Energy Department has recommended expanding the amount of nuclear waste that could be stored in an underground repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada to avoid the need for a second dump.

"You have a feeling of breathing space, a feeling of being outside, even though you're 1,000 metres underground going through a mountain".

Cracks laced the eastern face of the mountain while underground fissures allowed water to flow into the mountain's core.