The two visited the mountains of Scotland together, and found in different locations clear evidence of ancient glacial action.

Most of the community ( village ) is located on a high, ancient glacial moraine which abuts the eastern shore of Ugashik Bay six nautical miles upstream from Smoky Point and eighteen nautical miles ( 33 km ) downstream from the village of Ugashik.

The Metacomet Ridge, a mountainous trap rock ridgeline that stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border, runs through the center of the town, cutting off Salisbury Plain to the east, which used to lie under the ancient, glacial Lake Hitchcock.

The Red River flows across the flat lakebed of the ancient glacial Lake Agassiz, an enormous glacial lake created at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation from meltwaters of the Laurentide ice sheet.

Werribee Gorge has attracted the attention of geologists last century as one of the earliest known ancient glacial deposits, parts of which can be seen by the observant visitor.

By extension, placer mining refers to mining the precious metal deposits ( particularly gold and gemstones ) found in alluvial deposits — deposits of sand and gravel in modern or ancient stream beds, or occasionally glacial deposits.

From here the river flows swiftly through the Upper Clutha Valley between ancient glacial terraces, negotiating a long section called the ' Snake ' before reaching a rare switchback feature called the Devil's Nook near the town of Luggate.

Six counties in three states ( South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota ) can be seen from the top, where there is a view of the Laurentian Divide, the Coteau des Prairies and the ancient glacial valley that Nicollet mapped.

The boundary was determined primarily by ancient sandy beach ridges formed on the shores of Lakes Maumee and Whittlesey, after glacial retreat several thousand years ago.

However, the fact that its habitat is usually confined to ancient hay meadows and it does not easily spread to adjoining land, leads others to the conclusion that it is a native species which became isolated from the European population when Britain was cut off from mainland Europe after the last glacial period.

This northern Michigan park was established primarily because of its outstanding natural features, including forests, beaches, dune formations, and ancient glacial phenomena.

Another Reservoir was constructed in the early 1900s by the City of Seattle on an ancient glacial lake bed.

Since the glacial isostatic adjustment process causes the land to move relative to the sea, ancient shorelines are found to lie above present day sea level in areas that were once glaciated.

The " relative sea level data ", which consists of height and age measurements of the ancient beaches around the world, tells us that glacial isostatic adjustment proceeded at a higher rate near the end of deglaciation than today.

The ancient Teahs River was buried under tons of glacial silt, and the direction of the Hocking River was reversed.

Two ancient shorelines in the Toronto area mark the existence of former glacial lakes.

Mount Carleton is a monadnock, an erosional remnant of resistant igneous rocks that remained after an ancient Mesozoic peneplain surface was uplifted in the Cenozoic to form a plateau, and subsequently dissected via millions of years of erosion by wind, water and glacial ice.

Much of the geography was formed by ancient glacial action, forming flat bottomed U shaped valleys.

From the ancient glacial blanket only the highest tops emerged, one of them was mount St. Primo, which obliged the glaciers to divide themselves into two arms.

Niagara's only coldwater stream originates underground as meltwater from ancient glacial remnants left buried after the last ice age.

The region is carved by U-shaped glacial valleys, modelled by the movement of ancient glaciers.

The central village, Loriga, is seven kilometres from Torre ( the highest point ), but the parish is sculpted by cliffs, alluvial plains and glacial lakes deposited during millennia of glacial erosion, and surrounded by rare ancient forest that surrounded the lateral flanks of these glaciers.

He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.

A brackish lake, Birket Qarun, at the northern reaches of Al Fayyum Oasis, drained into the Nile in ancient times.

The lake was built in the 1930s to store water for an electricity generator ( central of Coghinadordza ), and it covered an ancient Roman bridge as well as an ancient archaeological site of the Nuragici people.

This ancient drainage system was destroyed by the first major glacier in the area, while at the same time deepening and enlarging the lowland allowing water to settle and form a lake.

This lake, the largest and most ancient in Japan, lies near the city of Kyoto.

There is evidence of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenemhet III in the twelfth dynasty ( about 1800 BCE ) using the natural lake of the Faiyum Oasis as a reservoir to store surpluses of water for use during the dry seasons, the lake swelled annually from flooding of the Nile.

Claudian describes the ancient city as extending to a considerable length towards the promontory or headland, the projection of which sheltered its port: the latter affords good anchorage for large vessels ; but besides this, which is only a well-sheltered road-stead, there is adjoining the city a large salt-water lake, or lagoon, called the Stagno di Cagliari, communicating by a narrow channel with the bay, which appears from Claudian to have been used in ancient times as an inner harbor or basin.

* Malagasy cultural traditions shared with Austronesians of Taiwan, the Pacific Islands, Indonesia, New Zealand, and the Philippines including ancient customs, such as burying the dead within a canoe in the sea or in a lake, the cultivation of traditional Austronesian crops such as taro orsaonjo, banana, coconut, and sugar cane, traditional architecture with a square house plan, music and musical instruments such as the Antsiva conch, the hazolahy drum, the atranatrana xylophone, sodina flute, or the valiha tube zither, and dance, including the " bird dance " found both in central and southern regions.

Before this, Lake Huron was a low-lying depression through which flowed the now-buried Laurentian and Huronian Rivers ; the lake bed was criss-crossed by a large network of tributaries to these ancient waterways, with many of the old channels still evident on bathymetric maps.

In Galicia, it is said that at the bottom of the Antela lake there are remnants of the ancient population of Antiochia, which was eradicated from the face of earth by a night deluge, in punishment for the sins of its inhabitants.

One archeological site, the Sumpf a late Bronze Age lake shore settlement, is included, as are three museums ; the Burg ( Castle museum ), Kunsthaus ( Art museum ) and Museum für Urgeschichte ( Museum for ancient history ).

At its extremity is situated the small town of Gemlik ( ancient Cius ) at the mouth of a valley, communicating with the lake of Iznik, on which was situated Nicaea.

The area outside of Attica including Boeotia was called by some ancient sources Graïke, the region where is mentioned the first worldwide flood in Greek mythology, the deluge of Ogyges. The Ogygian deluge, occurred during his reign and derives its name from him, though some sources regard it as a local flood, such as an inundation of Lake Copais, a large lake once in the center of Boeotia.

Ancient roadways radiate out from the lake to the various pueblos and ancient pueblo sites.

The lake is the only substantial stretch of the ancient River Effra remaining above ground.

This choice of completion for the triad should have proved popular, but because the isheru, the sacred lake outside Mut's ancient temple in Karnak at Thebes, was the shape of a crescent moon, Khonsu, the moon god eventually replaced Menthu as Mut's adopted son.

Scientists suggested that the lake could possess a unique habitat for ancient bacteria with an isolated microbial gene pool containing characteristics developed perhaps 500, 000 years ago.

In Egyptian mythology, Heryshaf, or Hershef, ( Egyptian Ḥry-š = f " He who is on his lake "), transcribed in Greek as Harsaphes ( Ἁρσαφής ) was an ancient ram-god whose cult was centered in Herakleopolis Magna ( now Ihnasiyyah al-Madinah ).

The training area is also characterized with ancient lava flows, as well as dry lake beds and arroyos ( or wadis ) that fill quickly during rain, presenting the danger of powerful floods and washouts that can move armored vehicles.

The name of the city comes from the ancient lake Almere.

" Situated on an ancient lake bed surrounded by hills, the valley with fertile meadows was excellent for farming.