The Grand Union crosses the wide valley gradually, descending by interspersed locks past the villages of Cheddington, Horton and Slapton until it reaches Leighton Buzzard.

The transition zone descending from the mountains ( 1, 200 m ) to the valley of the Rhône ( 300 to 400 m ), is the plateau region.

To the southeast, North Mountain peaks just outside town limits before descending to the valley.

This area of town is also mountainous and rugged, with the border descending along a northwesterly line to the narrow Woodbury Creek valley, where NY 32 and the New York State Thruway enter the town.

A glacier is an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.

Alum Bay Chine begins as a small wooded valley descending eastward from the junction of the B3322 and the road to Headon Hall.

The streams descending from the adjoining mountains, on reaching the verge of the rocky walls of the valley, form cascades so high that they are almost lost in spray before they reach the level of the valley.

The mountains are about 240 km long and about 100 – 120 km wide, with an average altitude of 785 m. To the north the mountain slopes are steeply descending towards the Upper Thracian Plain, to the west the Rhodopes reach the Avram saddle, Yundola and the valley of the Mesta River.

Passing down the valley of the River Conwy the road passes through Llanrwst, Tal y Cafn and Glan Conwy, at which point there is a dual roundabout that intersects with the A55 North Wales Expressway before descending into Llandudno.

When the A71 peaks at the top of the valley, it goes under the M74 at Jct 8 ( a junction known locally as Canderside Toll ), before turning towards the village of Stonehouse, where a bypass takes traffic to the north of the narrow village roads, before descending into the Avon valley and into Strathaven.

# the low solution, descending into the valley and crossing the river on a bridge, then a viaduct of extended by a tunnel on the Larzac side.

His plan was to start from the Huddersfield Broad Canal and follow the River Colne with a climb of to its summit, where it would pass through a tunnel at Standedge before descending through Saddleworth and the Tame valley to the Ashton Canal near Ashton-under-Lyne.

Near Mount Jefferson it turns sharply west, descending through a canyon past Idanha and Detroit to Niagara County Park where the valley begins to widen and some agriculture use begins.

After descending into the valley and exploring almost to the mouth of the river, which they named the Mackay, the members of the party selected land and began the trip back to civilisation.

The perspective is toward the northwest, from the narrow trail on the left which, at the point from which this view is seen, makes a hairpin turn to the right, descending to the valley.

The Axel Heiberg Glacier is a valley glacier, long, descending from the high elevations of the Antarctic Plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf ( nearly at sea level ) between the Herbert Range and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen in the Queen Maud Mountains.

* Afon Gamlan which joins at Ganllwyd after following a tumultuous valley through ancient Oak woods before descending towards the main river down Rhaeadr Ddu ( Black waterfalls ).

The Way crosses a saddle between Two Rock mountain and Kilmashogue before descending from a broad ridge between Two Rock and Tibradden Mountain into the valley of Glencullen where it follows the R116 road to the hamlet of Boranaraltry.

This valley runs north east, flanked by parallel ridges descending from Robinson and Hindscarth, its stream being named Scope Beck.

After descending on the eastern side of the mountain, the new line for the Tidewater Railway essentially followed the valley of the Roanoke River past the cities of Salem and Roanoke and through the water gap formed by the Roanoke River in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Work was started by September, engineered by John Urpeth Rastrick, with the route crossing a valley with the London Road viaduct then running through the South Downs to Falmer before descending down to Lewes, with a station at.

File: KatoombaRailway. png | Katoomba Scenic Railway descending to the valley floor

Terrain is most rugged in the extreme southeast, which is drained by the Bargushat River, and most moderate in the Araks River valley to the extreme southwest.

North of Isna ( 160 km north of Aswan ), the plateau on both sides of the valley rises to as much as 550 m above sea level ; at Qina ( some 90 km north of Isna ) the 300-m limestone cliffs force the Nile to change course towards the southwest for about 60 km before it turns northwest for about 160 km to Asyut.

Therefore, Alexander proceeded southwest along the Indus valley.

a year in the foothills and plateaus of the southwest, and in the valley of the Ubaye ; and 900 to 1500 mm.

Just west of Soda Springs the Bear River turns southwest as it heads for The Great Salt Lake, and the main trail turns northwest to follow the Portneuf River valley to Fort Hall, Idaho.

The River Afan ( generally anglicized as Avon, and sometimes historically as Avan ) is a river in southwest Wales whose river valley formed the territory of the medieval Lords of Afan.

Rapid residential construction continues in the west-central, southwest, and southern portions of the valley.

In the far west, southwest, and northwest, rural areas still exist, but rapid growth threatens what remains of the natural environment in the valley.

The Rugii, also Rugians, Rygir, Ulmerugi, or Holmrygir (, ) were an East Germanic tribe who migrated from southwest Norway to Pomerania around 100 AD, and from there to the Danube River valley.

Down as far as Brig, the Rhone is a torrent ; it then becomes a great mountain river running southwest through a glacier valley.

Most of Shelby County is drained either by the Cahaba River, which flows along the northern edge of the county, and then to the southwest, or by the Coosa River, whose valley includes the eastern end of the county.

The Stockton Arch is an upwarping of the crust beneath the valley sediments which extends southwest to northeast across the valley.

The county was named for Goshen Hole, a valley in the southwest part of the county At least four conflicting stories are available for the origin of the name Goshen Hole.

Over the years between 1670 and 1712, the Seneca were more active to the southwest as far southward as present-day North Carolina while the Mohawk extended their power north to Montreal and the St. Lawrence River valley.

The Sequatchie River bisects Sequatchie County as it flows from northeast to southwest down a remarkably straight valley.

This valley is shared by three major watersheds — the Wallkill River, with its tributaries Pochuck Creek and Papakating Creek flowing north ; and the Paulins Kill watershed and Pequest River watershed flowing southwest.

Wageningen is situated on the north bank of the Lower Rhine, (" Nederrijn " in Dutch ) and at the border between the Gelderse valley and the Veluwe, of which the southwest hill is called the Wageningse berg.

Most of northern Hancock is bound by the Taconic Mountains, between which the valley of the west branch of the Green River begins and continues northward, and the Kinderhook Creek valley begins and flows southwest into New York.

To the southwest of the valley, two mountain peaks-Mount Wilcot and Hunger Mountain-rise in a plateau in neighboring Monterey.

The town is in the Humboldt valley between the Shoshone Range to the southeast, Battle Mountain to the southwest and the Sheep Creek Range across the Humboldt to the north.

Railroad bridge spanning the Canadian River valley southwest of Logan

* Copes Corner – A hamlet southwest of Gilbertsville on NY-51, most noted for a county owned campgrounds on the Butternut Creek, once site of a proposed flood control dam that would have flooded Gilbertsville and much of the valley.