The land rises to 4, 095 m above sea-level at Mount Aragats.

From there, the land rises dramatically.

From the forested southern plateau the land rises northward to the grassy, rugged Adamaoua ( Adamawa ) highlands.

As a result, the land surface is unstable ; in places water rises almost to the surface, and the sea is shallow, with shoals and reefs extending far offshore.

Where the lithosphere moves upward ( tectonic uplift ), land eventually rises above sea level, so that and erosion removes material, and the area becomes a source for new sediment.

During warmer months sunlight heats the surfaces of both the land and the oceans, but the land temperature rises faster.

To complete the cycle, air rises to a higher altitude over land and then flows back toward the ocean.

Topographically, on the east bank of the river from the bridge crossing point, the land rises sharply up to 100 feet at High Catton.

In the far north, the land generally rises vertically from the ocean, sometimes to elevations well over.

During the afternoon, air pressure decreases over the land as temperature rises.

The same name was also used by Florentines, such as the poet Fazio degli Uberti ( circa 1309 – 1367 ), the famous chronicler Giovanni Villani ( c. 1275 – 1348 ), and Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), who wrote that the Brenta River rises from the mountains of Carantania, a land in the Alps dividing Italy from Germany.

Land bridges can be created by marine regression, in which sea levels fall, exposing shallow, previously submerged sections of continental shelf ; or when new land is created by plate tectonics ; or occasionally when the sea floor rises due to post-glacial rebound after an ice age.

The Epic of Ziusudra adds an element at lines 258 – 261 not found in other versions, that after the river flood " king Ziusudra ... they caused to dwell in the land of the country of Dilmun, the place where the sun rises ".

Often conflated with neighbouring Hoxton, the area has been subject to considerable gentrification in the past twenty years, with accompanying rises in land and property prices.

To the south, the land rises steeply, through Greenwich Park to the town of Blackheath.

As you travel south from the southern shore of Lake Michigan ( the northern end of the county ), the land gradually rises in elevation until the Valparaiso Moraine is reached.

It rises from a solid rock in a level spot of land, and it outputs enough water to have turned flour mills in the past.

To the south is relatively low land, but it rises quickly.

The park consists of land near the banks of the Lane Cove River, which rises

In the north of the city the coast rises in elevation and the land is raised up in the form of many coastal bluffs.

The land in and around Laguna Beach rises quickly from the shoreline into the hills and canyons of the San Joaquin Hills.

Oldsmar sits like a plateau where the land elevation never rises higher than above sea level.

Columbus is a relatively flat place in the Northern part of Lowndes County the land rises for a short period of time into hills and bluffs, in the Southern / Eastern part of the county the land has rolling hills that quickly turn into flatland floodplains that dominate this county.

The Southland Plains is a general name given to several areas of low-lying land in the South Island of New Zealand, separated by the rise of the Hokonui Hills in the north.

The series is about a poor backwoods family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California, after striking oil on their land.

In 705, the Friuli Lombards were defeated and lost the land to the west of the Soča River, namely the Gorizia Hills and the Venetian Slovenia.

Palin said, " I ’ ve been to the Nyamgiri Hills in Orissa and seen the forces of money and power that Vedanta Resources have arrayed against a people who have occupied their land for thousands of years, who husband the forest sustainably and make no great demands on the state or the government.

The campus also includes much land in unincorporated San Mateo County ( including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ), as well as in the city limits of Menlo Park ( Stanford Hills neighborhood ), Woodside, and Portola Valley.

Columbus is reported to have promised to name the next land he discovered for the Holy Trinity, and considered it a miracle when the first land he sighted was the three peaks of the Trinity Hills.

The CDP includes a number of older communities which do not lie within the CA's purview, including the Holiday Hills, Diamondback, and Allview subdivisions and the former town of Simpsonville, as well as some land on the east side of Clarksville.

East Oakland, which includes the East Oakland Hills, encompasses more than half of Oakland's land area, stretching from Lakeshore Avenue on the east shore of Lake Merritt southeast to the San Leandro border.

The Northern Cheyenne earned their right to remain in the north near the Black Hills, land they considered sacred.

The town's water was pumped from the common land at Spout Hills to the water tower in Shirehall Plain.

He said the land " here is very low and flat and continues so up to the skirts of the Hills which are at least 4 or 5 Miles in land.

Laguna Hills is built on one of the major land grants developed during the rancho era.

The latter included of residential land, including the Aliso Viejo Community Association's Sheep Hills Park.

The community of Portola Hills has 2, 181 housing units on of land with an average housing density of.

Built in the mid-1990s, Portola Hills Elementary was subject to litigation between the SVUSD school district and the developer concerning land movement at the school site.

This is due largely to the fact that Villa Park's early unwillingness to annex land beyond Santiago Creek, to annex the lands east of a Southern California Edison Power Line Easement that sat between the City of Villa Park and Anaheim Hills, eventually being annexed by the City of Orange.

The valley is surrounded by the Santa Rosa Hills and San Jacinto Mountains, and is mostly dry land, except for Diamond Valley Lake to the south of Hemet.

In 2006, El Cajon attempted to annex a small portion of unincorporated land that is part of the Granite Hills CDP ( census block 3006 ) to allow The Home Depot to build a store there.

Millbrae School District oversees four public elementary schools ( Meadows, Green Hills, Spring Valley, and Lomita Park ) and one middle school ( Taylor Middle School, named after the family that owned land along Taylor Boulevard prior to the city being laid out ).

Major Washington Jackson Houston owned land on the north side of the South Fork of Peachtree Creek, in what is now the North Druid Hills CDP.

The land that was to become Vernon Hills, founded by Richard Theodore Freese, Ron Freese, and Jim Carswell, began with the establishment of a farm in 1851.

Use of the land remained relatively static until the 1950s, when part of it was purchased for a residential community and golf course ; the development was the first use of the name " Vernon Hills.

In 2000, the village acquired land that had belonged at different times to the U. S. Army as a Nike missile base, the U. S. Navy as a naval training center, and the Curtiss Candy Company ; it was converted to what is now the Vernon Hills Athletic Complex.