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The low lying areas are underlain by much older Triassic age formations of Upper Lias sand that protrude to form what would once have been islands and include Glastonbury Tor.
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Fort Henry on the Tennessee River was in an especially unfavorable low – lying location commanded by hills on the Kentucky side of the river.
Snowfall is common on the mountains between November and May, but rare in the low lying areas.
The natural beach at Hayling was predominantly sandy but in recent years it has been mechanically topped with shingle dredged from the bed of the Solent in an effort to reduce beach erosion and reduce the potential to flood low lying land.
The far-infrared, approximately 400 – 10 cm < sup >− 1 </ sup > ( 25 – 1000 μm ), lying adjacent to the microwave region, has low energy and may be used for rotational spectroscopy.
Exchange of the coca leaf between consumers in the highlands and growers in the low lying hills has gone on for at least the last millennium, strengthening local economic ties.
Zanzibar is mainly low lying, with its highest point being 120 metres.
Dillinger had always been a fan of the Chicago Cubs, and instead of lying low like many criminals on the run, he continued to attend Cubs games at Wrigley Field during the months of June and July 1934.
Regular cyclones cause flooding in low lying coastal regions.
The screw was used mostly for draining water out of mines or other areas of low lying water.
Rainfall, at around 620 mm is typical for low lying areas of central and eastern England.
Glastonbury () is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low lying Somerset Levels, south of Bristol.
During the 7th millennium BC the sea level rose and flooded the valleys and low lying ground surrounding Glastonbury so the Mesolithic people occupied seasonal camps on the higher ground, indicated by scatters of flints.
The low lying damp ground can produce a visual effect known as a Fata Morgana.
According to C. Michael Hogan, the Wadden Sea is one of the world's seas whose coastline has been most modified by humans, via systems of dikes and causeways on the mainland and low lying coastal islands.
Madrid is home to mountain peaks rising above 2, 000m, holm oak dehesas and low lying plains.
Cold fronts are closely associated with low pressure systems, normally lying at the leading edge of high-pressure systems and, in the case of the polar front, at approximately the equatorward edge of the high-level polar jet.
The coastal hinterland is composed of erodible cliffs and a low lying area commonly known as the Rakaia Huts.
Winter high temperatures are around the 10 ° C mark throughout the low lying areas.
Nearly every winter the Laguna floods, cutting off State Route 12, and often flooding the low lying businesses and homes on the eastern side of Sebastopol.
From the wooded high ground around Highgate and Muswell Hill, at, the land falls sharply away to the flat, open low lying land beside the River Lea in the east.
From the wooded high ground around Highgate and Muswell Hill, at, the land falls sharply away to the flat, open low lying land beside the River Lea in the east.
Consequently, it is largely low lying flatland to the east used primarily for agriculture and expanses of trees used for timber to the west.
On 31 January 1953, the low lying areas of Thurrock were innundated by the North Sea flood of 1953.
More than 1300 people in Tilbury and other low lying areas were evacuated to schools on the higher ground.
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What we are attempting to do is achieve and maintain a balance between medium density and low density residential areas and industrial and commercial development.
As this tax base grows so then can your medium and low density residential areas grow.
Although previous Apollo expeditions, including Apollo 14 and Apollo 15 obtained samples of pre-mare lunar material, before lava began to upwell from the Moon's interior and flood the low areas and basins, none had actually visited the lunar highlands.
Many areas of the province are often covered by a blanket of heavy cloud and low fog during winter, despite sunny summers.
Finally, a third reason was long-term air support for areas with a low threat level ( Iraq, Afghanistan ).
Although they can wander into agricultural areas, these cranes are most common in areas where disturbance by humans and their cattle is relatively low.
A large animal, the bongo requires an ample amount of food, and is restricted to areas with abundant year-round growth of herbs and low shrubs.
Only about 60 % are in protected areas, suggesting that actual numbers of the lowland subspecies may only be in the low tens of thousands.
# Intertidal levels: The wetness gradient of areas that are exposed to alternating water and dryness with intensities that vary by location from high to low tide
The word capoeira probably comes from Tupi, referring to the areas of low vegetation in the Brazilian interior.
As the number of keys is low the button areas can be made bigger and easier to hit on the small screen.
When P and N-doped layers are placed in contact, diffusion ensures that electrons flow from high to low density areas: That is, from the N to the P side.
Most cable viewers in the US are in the suburbs and tend to be middle class ; cable television is less common in low income, inner city, and rural areas.
Rather than flowing directly from areas of high pressure to low pressure, as they would on a non-rotating planet, winds and currents tend to flow to the right of this direction north of the equator, and to the left of this direction south of it.
Hazards that strike in areas with low vulnerability will never become disasters, as is the case in uninhabited regions.
* Dispersive mass transfer, in fluid dynamics, the spreading of mass from areas of high to low concentration
For example, westerly flows between MJO-induced areas of low pressure may cause cyclonic circulations north and south of the equator.
Gun ownership is low in metropolitan areas whose residents would generally not fulfill ' Genuine Reasons ' requirements.
The beach is mainly shingle, although wide areas of sand are uncovered at low tide.
Atmospheric pressures during the summer months are relatively uniform, whereas the winter months bring a succession of marked low pressure areas and accompanying cold fronts.
With a blade, he would then scrape over the entire surface a thin layer of tinted white lead to act as a ground and to fill the low areas of the panel.
* Drylands, areas with low amounts of water in the soil
Due to the low abundance of irons in collection areas such as Antarctica, where most of the meteoric material that has fallen can be recovered, it is possible that the actual percentage of iron-meteorite falls is lower than 5 %.
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