The Cretaceous was a period with a relatively warm climate, resulting in high eustatic sea levels and creating numerous shallow inland seas.

Many cacti have a short growing season and a long dormancy and are able to react quickly to any rainfall, helped by an extensive but relatively shallow root system.

The corona is separated from the photosphere by the relatively shallow chromosphere.

The hull was long and narrow, with a relatively shallow draft.

The gulf is relatively shallow with the depth decreasing from the entrance to the gulf to the continent.

However, the story remained a relatively shallow tale — a celebration of US conquest and personal adventures — until the mid-century, since which time the history has been more thoroughly researched and retold in many forms to a growing and appreciative audience.

An orthography with relatively simple and consistent correspondences is called shallow ( and the language has regular spelling ).

The slow merger of Baltica and Laurentia, and the northward movement of bits and pieces of Gondwana created numerous new regions of relatively warm, shallow sea floor.

Track Cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes ( but many events are held at older velodromes where the track banking is relatively shallow ) using track bicycles.

The impact of a ball or slug EFP normally causes a large-diameter but relatively shallow hole, of, at most, a couple of CDs.

A skier following the fall line will reach the maximum possible speed for that slope, which is often dangerously fast even on relatively shallow hills.

Sipunculids are all marine and are relatively common, and live in shallow waters, either in burrows or in discarded shells like hermit crabs do.

They inhabit sand and mud beneath shallow coastal waters and can survive in relatively anoxic environments.

Practical skills mastery is obtained through confined water training ( pools or relatively shallow water ) and performance evaluations in open water.

During his trial, his defense argued that the relatively shallow gene pool of the region could lead to false positives.

Other soils may have an impervious layer of mineralized soil, called a hardpan or relatively impervious rock layers may underlie shallow soils.

Calcareous sponges, which have calcium carbonate spicules and, in some species, calcium carbonate exoskeletons, are restricted to relatively shallow marine waters where production of calcium carbonate is easiest.

Eggs are laid in clear, relatively shallow water on plants, submerged logs, gravel, or rocks.

Glass sponges are relatively uncommon and are mostly found at depths from although the species Oopsacas minuta has been found in shallow water, while others have been found much deeper.

Most species live on the sea bottom in relatively shallow waters, although species are known from deep water, from the mid-water, and even from fresh water.

" jumped, bounced " in reference to tossing while cooking ) is a method of cooking food, that uses a small amount of oil or fat in a shallow pan over relatively high heat.

The bay is relatively shallow and is considered an epicontinental sea, with an average depth of about ( compared to 2, 600 metres in the Bay of Bengal ).

Around most of Bahrain is a relatively shallow inlet of the Persian Gulf known as the Gulf of Bahrain.

Around most of the Island of Bahrain is a relatively shallow inlet of the Persian Gulf known as the Gulf of Bahrain.

Welwitschia has an elongated, but relatively shallow root system and a woody, fibrous unbranched stem.

Depth charges of the time were relatively primitive, and almost the only chance of sinking a submarine was by gunfire or by ramming while on the surface.

Because of its relatively low cost and simple programming, the 650 pioneered a wide variety of applications, from modeling submarine crew performance to teaching high school students computer programming.

Futile attempts were made by destroyer to destroy the submarine, but Cavalla escaped with relatively minor damage due to depth charge near misses from Urakaze.

Although the boardings were conducted relatively peacefully, there was resistance on the Surcouf, then the largest submarine in the world, resulting in a skirmish in which one French and three British naval personnel were killed.

The relatively new submarine force offered the prospect of advancement.

The advantage with this type of weapon is that it requires a relatively small payload since it detonates in direct contact or within a very close proximity of the submarine.

The island, given that it was such an important base went relatively unscathed during the war, except for an attack from a Japanese submarine on January 11, 1942.

The shelter provided by these two mountainous ridges has produced a " micro climate " which provides relatively mild temperatures for the region and, coupled with the fertile glacial sedimentary soils on the valley floor, the region is conducive to growing vegetable and fruit crops.

Particularly famous for its apple crop, the valley hosts in excess of 1, 000 farms of various types, the majority being relatively small family-owned operations.

He concluded that, in the relatively recent past, Switzerland had been another Greenland ; that instead of a few glaciers stretching across the areas referred to, one vast sheet of ice, originating in the higher Alps, had extended over the entire valley of northwestern Switzerland until it reached the southern slopes of the Jura, which, though they checked and deflected its further extension, did not prevent the ice from reaching in many places the summit of the range.

This is rather high considering its relatively high altitude of about 1350 metres and is due mainly to its sheltered valley position, which acts as a heat trap and cuts it off from cool southerly and south-easterly air masses for much of the year.

In the Alpine zone, the valley floor is relatively mild in contrast with the colder higher areas ( Bormio, 1, 225 m, average in January, in July ).

Despite its relatively small size, Navarre features stark contrasts in geography, from the Pyrenees mountain range that dominates the territory to the plains of the Ebro river valley in the south.

The part near the indentation of the kidney bean itself is a relatively flat valley, with the two edges of the bean, the provinces of Martakert and Martuni, having flat lands as well.

Taking up the land between the Wellsville and Bear River Mountains is Cache Valley, a relatively flat valley traversed by the Bear River and dotted with small farm towns in the west and the larger, more urban, and faster-growing areas in the east, along the benches of the Bear River Mountains.

The minimum annual rainfall, however, are found in some inland valleys, sheltered from much disturbance to the blocking action of mountain ridges, such as the Valley Peligna, or the valley of the river Tirino, which in some places ( Ofena, Capistrano ) showed barely 500 mm, and not along the coast where it never falls below 600 mm, for if the Teramo is relatively little watered by rain ( Teramo less than 800 mm ), the meter is exceeded in Chieti, reaching maximum levels in the Adriatic, while between Ortona and Vasto in Costa Trabocchi decrease again.

Since the 1860s, the Ardèche economy has been split between the prosperous Rhône valley and the relatively poor and mountainous Haut Vivarais on the western side of the department.

The county is relatively flat except for the Canadian River valley.

Other creeks found on the right bank ( south and west ) of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Lycoming County are relatively minor, including Antes Creek in the Nippenose valley ( in Limestone and Nippenose Townships ), Mosquito Creek ( at Duboistown ), Hagermans Run ( at South Williamsport ), and Black Hole Creek ( at Montgomery ).

The county can be divided into four major geographic divisions: the low-lying and relatively flat valley of Pumpkin Creek, which occupies about 40 % of the county's area ; a tableland, in places smooth and in others deeply dissected, occupying the southern one-third of the county ; the Wildcat Hills, a highly dissected escarpment that crosses the northwestern portion of the county ; and a small portion of the North Platte River valley in the northeastern corner of the county.

The sides of the valley are steep and relatively undisturbed ; the lower slopes are partly cleared and have a history of Aboriginal and European use.

La Quinta is in the Coachella Valley and is relatively close to all major cities in that valley, including:

It should also be noted that while sub − freezing temperatures are very common at high elevation, valley sites in the Rockies during the winter, maximum temperatures that remain sub − freezing are quite rare, while at International Falls and much of the upper ( Northern ) Midwest they are of relatively frequent occurrence.

Some of the city is relatively flat bottom land located along the river valley while neighborhoods are located on rather steep terrain, some of which approaches the angle of repose.

Geologically, the Thuringian Forest is defined by a belt of strongly uplifted and deformed metamorphic and igneous rock that divides the relatively flat sedimentary plains of the Thüringer Becken ( to the northeast ) from similar rock formations in the valley of the Werra ( to the southwest ).

The braided channels may flow within an area defined by relatively stable banks or may occupy an entire valley floor.

This has made housing construction relatively easy, although flooding at the head of the valley has been a problem in the past due to the reverse slope caused by the sand dunes filling the front of the valley.

As a result, the valley floor and lake bed are relatively flat, which causes the lake to be shallow.

The interior of the province, which is relatively flat and low in altitude, contains the Muling River, the Naoli River, the Songhua River, the Nen River, and the Mudan River, all tributaries of the Amur's basin, while the northern border forms part of the Amur valley.