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The mountain systems include: the southeastern Transverse Ranges ( the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains ) in the Mojave Desert north and northeast of the Los Angeles basin and Inland Empire ; and the northern Peninsular Ranges ( San Jacinto, Santa Rosa, and Laguna Mountains ), which separate the Colorado Desert ( western Sonoran Desert ) from lower coastal Southern California.
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The Alps, one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretch approximately across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, France to the west and Italy and Monaco to the south.
Cismontane chaparral (" this side of the mountain ") refers to a chaparral ecosystem in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Biome in California, growing on the western ( and coastal ) sides of large mountain range systems, such as: western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in the San Joaquin Valley foothills, western slopes of the Peninsular Ranges and California Coast Ranges, and south-southwest slopes of the Transverse Ranges in the Central Coast and Southern California regions.
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.
The terrain of Kyrgyzstan is dominated by the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain systems, which together occupy about 65 % of the national territory.
Considering underwater topography, the Ocean Ridges of the world form the longest mountain systems on Earth.
Above sea level major mountain systems are chiefly arranged in two regions ; the Pacific Ring of Fire and the Alpide Belt.
The mountain systems of the earth are characterized by a tree structure, that is, many mountain ranges have sub-ranges within them.
The events typically of interest are thunderstorms, squall lines, fronts, precipitation bands in tropical and extratropical cyclones, and topographically generated weather systems such as mountain waves and sea and land breezes.
In strike-slip systems, such as the San Andreas Fault, restraining bends result in regions of localized crustal shortening and mountain building without a plate-margin-wide orogeny.
The term Alps has been applied to mountain systems around the world that exhibit similar traits.
There are several systems in current use to grade mountain climbs.
As there are no nearby mountain ranges or bodies of water to ameliorate the climatic conditions, Argyle lies exposed to numerous weather systems including bitterly cold Arctic high pressure systems.
* Hydration systems are important for mountain bikers in the backcountry, ranging from simple water bottles to water bags with drinking tubes in lightweight backpacks ( e. g., Camelbaks ).
The cyst can survive for weeks to months in cold water, so can be present in contaminated wells and water systems, especially stagnant water sources, such as naturally occurring ponds, storm water storage systems, and even clean-looking mountain streams.
A corded-zoned Maritime variety ( C / ZM ), proposed to be a hybrid between AOC and Maritime Herringbone, was mainly found in burial contexts and expanded westward, especially along the mountain systems of the Meseta.
The Fergana valley is an intermountain depression in Central Asia, between the mountain systems of the Tien-Shan in the north and the Gissar-Alai in the south.
Four mountain systems meet in Serbia: Dinaric Alps in the west cover the greatest territory, and stretch from northwest to southeast.
* Der Große Brockhaus, Leipzig 1928-1935: " Dach der Welt, Bezeichnung für das Hochland von Pamir ", i. e., " roof of the world, term describing the Pamir highlands ", and ( in translation ): " Pamir highlands, nodal point of the mountain systems of Tien-Shan, Kun-lun, Karakoram, the Himalayas and Hindukush, and therefore called the roof of the world.
On coasts and isolated mountains the tree line is often much lower than in corresponding altitudes inland and in larger, more complex mountain systems, because strong winds reduce tree growth.
The rainfall on the plain is significantly lower than in the mountains, but in recent years a number of dams and irrigation systems have been constructed to capture the mountain runoff.
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The more common types include utility bicycles, mountain bicycles, racing bicycles, touring bicycles, hybrid bicycles, cruiser bicycles, and BMX Bikes.
Many road bikes along with mountain bikes include clipless pedals to which special shoes attach, via a cleat, permitting the rider to pull on the pedals as well as push.
Notable past visitors to the mountain peak include Pope Pius XII, Pope John Paul II, Alberto Santos-Dumont, German Sueiro Vasquez, Albert Einstein, and Diana, Princess of Wales.
Numerical models work in the same way as these analog models, though they are often more sophisticated and can include patterns of erosion and uplift in the mountain belt.
Examples include staged multi-caches ; underwater caches, caches located 50 feet ( 15 m ) up a tree, caches found only after long offroad drives, caches on high mountain peaks, caches located in challenging environments ( such as Antarctica or north of the Arctic Circle ), and magnetic caches attached to metal structures and / or objects.
The city's major Projects include a Kabul cable car, connecting the city to Shirdarwaza mountain, a tunnel though mountains close to Kabul university to reduce traffic jams, building more flyovers in the city with the city's first fly-over being built with the help of Turkey ; in addition to providing more trucks and lorries for the municipality.
Some examples include the " Pieter Both " mountain, the " Vandermeersh " region near Rose-Hill as well as many other names.
These include the Tasman and Murchison Glaciers to the east of the mountain and the smaller Hooker and Mueller Glaciers to its south.
Techniques of surface mining include ; Open-pit mining which consists of recovery of materials from an open pit in the ground, quarrying or gathering building materials from an open pit mine, strip mining which consists of stripping surface layers off to reveal ore / seams underneath, and mountaintop removal, commonly associated with coal mining, which involves taking the top of a mountain off to reach ore deposits at depth.
Indigenous names for the mountain include Koma Kulshan or Kulshan ( Lummi, qwú ’ mə, " white sentinel ", i. e. " mountain ", and kwəlshé: n, " puncture wound ", i. e. " crater "); Quck Sam-ik ( Nooksack: kw ’ eq sámit, " white mountain "); Kobah ( Skagit: qwúbə ’, " white sentinel ", i. e. " mountain "); and Tukullum or Nahcullum ( in the language of the unidentified " Koma tribe ").
Specific plot elements and features in The Hobbit that show similarities to Beowulf include the title thief as Bilbo is called by Gollum and later also by Smaug, the underground path into the mountain, and Smaug's personality which leads to the destruction of Lake-town.
Other common trees and plants include chestnut, maple, tulip poplar, mountain laurel, milkweed, daisies, and many species of ferns.
Definitions of " mountain " include:
More traditional events include gelandesprung jumping ( ski jumping for distance on Alpine equipment ), and " powder 8 " contests ; among the more recent introductions are " big mountain " or " extreme skiing " contests, in which athletes start at the top of a mountain and ski a route down that involves wide, fast turns as well as cliff drops.
Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include Fuji-no-Yama ( ふじの山, the Mountain of Fuji ), Fuji-no-Takane ( ふじの高嶺, the High Peak of Fuji ), Fuyō-hō ( 芙蓉峰, the Lotus Peak ), and Fugaku ( 富岳 or 富嶽, the first character of 富士, Fuji, and 岳, mountain ).
The county's main mountain ranges include: the Slieve Miskish and Caha Mountains on the Beara Peninsula, the Ballyhoura Mountains on the border with Limerick and the Shehy Mountains which contain Knockboy ( 706 m ) the highest point in Cork.
Examples include the Barbary Macaque, the Atlas Bear ( Africa's only species of bear ; now extinct ), the Barbary Leopard, the Barbary stag, Barbary Sheep, the Barbary Lion ( extinct in the wild ), the Atlas Mountain Badger, the North African Elephant ( extinct ), the African Aurochs ( extinct ), Cuvier's Gazelle, the Northern Bald Ibis, Dippers, the Atlas mountain viper, the Atlas Cedar, the European Black Pine, and the Algerian Oak.
The geographical features of Istria include the Učka mountain ridge, which is the highest portion of the Ćićarija mountain range ; the rivers Dragonja, Mirna, Pazinčica, and Raša ; and the Lim bay and valley.
These include simple diagrams of basic folds like valley and mountain folds, pleats, reverse folds, squash folds, and sinks.
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Black Rock, Antelope Island, White Rock, Egg Island, Fremont Island, and the Promontory mountain range are each extensions of the Oquirrh Mountain Range, which dips beneath the lake at its southeastern shore.
The Dauphiné Alps () are a group of mountain ranges in southeastern France, west of the main chain of the Alps.
* Franconian Jura, a mountain range in southeastern Germany
In the central, far western, and southeastern areas of the county some of the highest mountain ranges in Texas are found.
The bulk of the county is flat lowland, either grassland or desert scrub, but it also contains three mountain ranges: Cooke's Range in the north, the Florida Mountains on the southeastern side of Deming near the center of the county, and the Tres Hermanas Mountains in the southern part of the county near Columbus.
In the southeastern part of the county is Great Basin National Park and Wheeler Peak, the tallest mountain wholly within Nevada.
Briggs Hill is a mountain summit in the far southeastern corner of Highland Plantation and its base apparently runs across the plantation border into Lexington Township.
Only on the southeastern perimeter of the Upper Harz, which is also called the High Harz ( Hochharz ) ( Goslar, Osterode and Harz districts ), does the mountain range exceed on the Brocken massif.
Eucalyptus regnans, known variously by the common names mountain ash, Victorian ash, swamp gum, Tasmanian oak or stringy gum, is a species of Eucalyptus native to southeastern Australia, in Tasmania and Victoria.
The Changbai Mountains run through its southeastern regions, and contains the highest peak of the province, Baiyun Peak at 2691 m. Other mountain ranges include the Jilinhada Mountains, Zhang Guangcai Mountains, and Longgang Mountains.
* Šar Mountains, a mountain range in southeastern Europe
The drainage basin ( watershed ) includes portions of the Allegheny Plateau region of the Appalachian Mountains, cutting through water gaps in the lateral mountain ridges in a broad zigzag course to flow across the rural heartland of southeastern Pennsylvania and northeastern Maryland.
Nemrut or Nemrud ( ; ) is a high mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.
The Mount Hermon ski resort on the southeastern slopes of the mountain
The Chartreuse Mountains (, ) is a mountain range in southeastern France, stretching to the north from the city of Grenoble to the Lac du Bourget.
The Ouachita Mountains () are a mountain range in west central Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma.
In its southern portions the district includes parts of the southeastern Thuringian Forest, among them the highest elevation of that mountain chain, including the Großer Beerberg ( 982 m ).
Some versions of Arirang mention Mungyeong Saejae, which is the main mountain pass on the ancient Joseon Dynasty road between Seoul and southeastern Gyeongsang Province.
The mountain town of Bartholomäberg spreads its wings above Schruns, with its outliers Jetzmunt and Lutt watching over St. Anton and its southeastern outliers Kristberg and Innerberg watching over the Silbertal valley.
The Front Range is a mountain range of the Southern Rocky Mountains of North America located in the central portion of the U. S. State of Colorado and southeastern portion of the U. S. State of Wyoming.
* Bolkar mountain range, southeastern, highest peak Mt.
Mount Graham is a mountain in southeastern Arizona in the United States, in the Coronado National Forest.
The Elbe Sandstone Mountains, also called the Elbe sandstone highlands (; ) is a mountain range straddling the border between the state of Saxony in southeastern Germany and the North Bohemian region of the Czech Republic, with about three-quarters of the area lying on the German side.
The mountain divides the watersheds of Pohatcong Creek on its northwestern flank and the Musconetcong River on its southeastern flank.
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