Transmontane chaparral or Desert chaparral is found on the eastern slopes of major mountain range systems on the western sides of the deserts of California.

Transmontane — Desert chaparral typically grows on the lower ( elevation ) northern slopes of the southern Transverse Ranges ( running east to west in San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties ) and on the lower () eastern slopes of the Peninsular Ranges ( running south to north from lower Baja California to Riverside and Orange Counties and the Transverse Ranges ).

The rainfall pattern is varied, with rain heavier in some of the lowlands and on the northern and eastern slopes of the mountains.

There is one seasonal lake, fed by springs, on the eastern slopes of the Lebanon Mountains near Yammunah, about southeast of Tripoli.

It also receives the waters from the-long Lake George, so its basin collects waters from the northwestern slopes of the Green Mountains of Vermont, the north and west slopes of the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, and the northern most eastern peaks of the Adirondack Mountains of New York State.

It is anticipated that all the island's rainforests, excluding those in protected areas and the steepest eastern mountain slopes, will have been deforested by 2025.

A long, narrow strip of desert known as Ad Dahna separates Najd from eastern Arabia, which slopes eastward to the sandy coast along the Persian Gulf.

The eastern slopes are less steep and are marked by dry river beds ( wadis ) that trace the courses of ancient rivers and continue to lead the rare rainfalls down to the plains.

The western slopes catch moisture-laden western sea winds and are thus more fertile and more heavily populated than the eastern slopes, which receive only hot, dry winds blowing across the desert.

The eastern slopes have little rainfall and vegetation and merge eventually with the desert.

Its main rivers are located only in the southern and eastern peripheries ; a few smaller rivers on the northern slopes of the Kopetdag are diverted entirely to irrigation.

* Olinda Forest occupies the eastern slopes of Mount Dandenong.

The area is susceptible to flash flooding, because of forest fires having denuded parts of the eastern slopes of Mount Penteli especially in 2006.

R. keithii is found along the eastern slopes of Mount Kinabalu in the Lohan Valley of Sabah.

Coca is traditionally cultivated in the lower altitudes of the eastern slopes of the Andes ( the Yungas ), or the highlands depending on the species grown.

Administratively the range is divided between the Italian provinces of Cuneo and Imperia ( eastern slopes ) and the French department of Alpes-Maritimes ( western slopes ).

Administratively the range is divided between the Italian provinces of Cuneo and Turin ( eastern slopes ) and the French departments of Savoie, Hautes-Alpes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence ( western slopes ).

On Fox Green, at the eastern end of Omaha, four sections of L / 16 had survived their landing intact and were now leading elements of I / 16, K / 16 and E / 116 up the slopes.

In the Ogo's especially arid eastern part, the plateau — broken by several isolated mountain ranges — gradually slopes toward the Indian Ocean and in central Somalia constitutes the Mudug Plain.

Fresh lahar channels scar Ruapehu's eastern slopes, 27 March 2007.

Moreover, the fall of communism in eastern Europe in 1989 and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 had resulted in a significant drop in communist aid to North Korea, resulting in largely decreased relations with Russia.

Other evidence of the glacier and Lake Agassiz is the approximately 140 ' drop in elevation from the eastern portion of the county to the western part, near the Red River.

Stockton, originally called Sandy Hill, grew up at the crossing of the post road from Snow Hill south to Virginia ( whose track is generally followed by modern Maryland Route 12 ) with the road from Mattapony Landing on the Pocomoke River to the Chincoteague Bay ( the eastern part of which is now Maryland Route 366 ), where ocean-going vessels could drop anchor.

The George River reindeer herd in the tundra of Quebec and Labrador in eastern Canada, once numbered world ’ s largest 8-900, 000 animals, stands December 2011 at 74, 000 – a drop of up to 92 % because of Iron-ore mining, flooding for hydro-power and road-building.

The eastern slopes drop very quickly to the Indus River, but towards west, the mountain range drops gradually to the Sistan Basin.

The near-cliffs along the eastern side of the Rock drop down to a series of wind-blown sand slopes that date to the glaciations when sea levels were lower than today, and a sandy plain extended east from the base of the Rock.

The current height champion eastern white pine of the Northeast is the Longfellow Pine in Cook Forest State Park, Pennsylvania, which has also been climbed and measured by tape drop, and currently has a height of 55. 96 m ( 183. 6 ft ).

Temperate rain forests in the eastern USA are limited to areas in the southern Appalachian Mountains where orographic precipitation causes weather systems coming from the west and from the Gulf of Mexico to drop more precipitation than in surrounding areas.

A significant drop in red squirrel populations in the area has been observed since 1970, and it is feared that the eastern grey squirrel may expand into the rest of Europe.

The river rises at the base of the Cumberland Plateau, just southwest of Monterey in eastern Putnam County, with the convergence of several smaller streams that drop off the Plateau.

Since the eastern side of the Front is drained by Chesapeake Bay rivers that drop fairly rapidly through the Ridge and Valley Province to the low-elevation waters of the Great Appalachian Valley, erosion on the eastern slope of this caprock layer has been much more intense than on the western slope, where drainage to low elevations is spread over a greater distance ( particularly considering stream meanders ) through the Appalachian Plateau to the Ohio River.

Smith also requested close air support, calling for the now waiting aircraft to drop napalm across 11 Platoon's eastern frontage.

Additional changes that year included the rerouting of the trail around the southern and eastern sides of King Solomon's Dome south of Dawson City and the introduction of the Scroggie Creek dog drop site on the shore of the Stewart River.

Though it was welcome in the populous eastern provinces, the NEP was unpopular in the western regionespecially oil-rich Albertawhere populists felt the western provinces had been excluded from debate on the energy program, and looked towards the United States with the belief that, had Canada's Senate been more like its American counterpart, senators from the four western provinces could have forced the Senate to drop the program, or at least allow for significant amendments to it.

The eastern rivers, Jora, Ula, Frya, Tromsa and Mesna are shorter and drop precipitously from the heights of the Rondane.

The falls, at 350 metres ( 1148 ft ) high, are among the highest in eastern North America, and drop from the plateau above ( aka Big Level Plateau ) into Western Brook Pond.

The eastern zone is dominated by a range of verdant hills which drop steeply to the coast of the Alor Strait.

Located in the town of Wilmington ( about from Lake Placid ) the mountain is home to a ski area with the highest vertical drop in the eastern United States ().

The Warner Mountains drop steeply on the eastern slopes, whereas the western flank has a more gentle topography.

The term Columbia Basin is used to refer not only to the entire drainage basin but also to subsets of the river's full watershed, such as the relatively flat and unforested area in eastern Washington bounded by the Cascades, the Rocky Mountains, and the Blue Mountains.

Examples can be seen in the flood regions result from glacial Lake Missoula, which created the channeled scablands in the Columbia Basin region of eastern Washington.

* Classical Greek and then Koine Greek in the Mediterranean Basin from the Athenian empire to the eastern Roman Empire, being replaced by Modern Greek.

On the other side, there are many indigenous languages in the Amazon Basin and eastern North America, as well as a few in Asia and Africa, with no liquids.

Other notable oceanic trenches include Monterey Canyon, in the eastern Pacific, the Tonga Trench in the southwest at 10, 882 m ( 35, 702 ft ), the Philippine Trench, the Puerto Rico Trench at 8, 605 m ( 28, 232 ft ), the Romanche Trench at 7, 760 m ( 24, 450 ft ), Fram Basin in the Arctic Ocean at 4, 665 m ( 15, 305 ft ), the Java Trench at 7450 m ( 24, 442 ft ), and the South Sandwich Trench at 7, 235 m ( 23, 737 ft ).

The olive ( or, Olea europaea, meaning " Oil from / of Europe ") is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean Basin ( the adjoining coastal areas of southeastern Europe, western Asia and northern Africa ) as well as northern Iraq, and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea.

The upper Indus Basin includes Punjab ; the lower Indus Basin begins at the Panjnad River ( the confluence of the eastern tributaries of the Indus ) and extends south to the coast.

The eastern portions of Peru include the Amazon Basin or selva baja, a region that is larger in the north than in the south.

western coastal plain ( costa ), high and rugged Andes in center ( sierra ), eastern lowland jungle of Amazon Basin ( selva ).

Chagatai's ulus, or hereditary territory, consisted of the part of the Mongol Empire which extended from the Ili River ( today in eastern Kazakhstan ) and Kashgaria ( in the western Tarim Basin ) to Transoxiana ( modern Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan ).

Prolonged droughts affected many parts of the western United States and especially eastern California and the west of Great Basin.

A sediment core from the eastern Bransfield Basin, Antarctic Peninsula, preserves climatic events in the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period.

Dresden lies on both banks of the river Elbe, mostly in the Dresden Basin, with the further reaches of the eastern Ore Mountains to the south, the steep slope of the Lusatian granitic crust to the north, and the Elbe Sandstone Mountains to the east at an altitude of about.

The remaining third of the country consists of the foothills and lower lying areas along the Danube valley between the two mountain ranges in the centre, and the eastern plains along the Hungarian border, forming the western edge of the Pannonian Basin.

Katowice lies on Katowice Highlands, as part of the Silesian Highlands, in the eastern part of Upper Silesia, within the central portion of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin.

The redfin pickerel's range extends from the Saint Lawrence drainage in Quebec down to the Gulf Coast, from Mississippi to Florida, while the grass pickerel's range is further west, extending from the Great Lakes Basin, from Ontario to Michigan, down to the western Gulf Coast, from eastern Texas to Mississippi.

In April 1859, an expedition of U. S. Corp of Topographical Engineers led by Captain James H. Simpson left Camp Floyd ( Utah ) to establish an army supply route across the Great Basin to the eastern slope of the Sierras.

These mummified remains may have been of people who spoke Indo-European languages, that remained in use in the Tarim Basin, in the modern day Xinjiang region, until replaced by Turkic influences from the northern Xiongnu Empire, and by Chinese influences from the eastern Han Dynasty, who spoke a Sino-Tibetan language.

The migrations in 175-125 BC of the Kushan ( Chinese: " Yuezhi ") tribes, who originally lived in eastern Tarim Basin before the Huns tribes dislodged them, displaced the Indo-Scythians from Central Asia.

The difficulty of accessing the region overland from the eastern part of China and the foggy climate hindering the accuracy of Japanese bombing of the Sichuan Basin, made the region the stronghold of Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang government during 1938-45, and led to the Bombing of Chongqing.

Chignecto Bay is further subdivided into Cumberland Basin and Shepody Bay and the extreme eastern portion of Minas Basin is called Cobequid Bay.

In 1861 Young dispatched an exploring party to the Uinta Basin ; they reported that " that section of country lying between the Wasatch Mountains and the eastern boundary of the territory, and south of Green River country, was one vast contiguity of waste and measurably valueless.

104 – 87 BC: expansion into the eastern Tarim Basin, thereby ' cutting off the Xiongnu right hand '.