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The natural valley aquifer is close to the surface in this part of the valley, and helps with maintenance of water levels in the San Luis Lakes, just to the west of the sand dunes.
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It may be distant views of a valley or the mountains or natural features such as a small lake, colorful rock formations, or unusual trees.
Before the destruction, the Dead Sea was a valley full of natural tar pits, which was called the vale of Siddim.
Leonardo da Vinci mentions natural camera obscuras that are formed by dark caves on the edge of a sunlit valley.
The valley of the Evrotas is a natural fortress, bounded to the west by Mt.
The valley is renowned for its natural beauty, and is widely regarded as the centerpiece of Yosemite National Park, attracting visitors from around the world.
Between them both, at the eastern end of the valley, is Half Dome, the most famous and most recognizable natural feature in the Sierra Nevada.
The enclosed valley had all the natural features needed for the creation of a monastery, providing shelter from the weather, stone and timber for building, and a supply of running water.
In the far west, southwest, and northwest, rural areas still exist, but rapid growth threatens what remains of the natural environment in the valley.
The mountain of Kolsås forms a natural center, but the municipality also includes the secluded valley of Lommedalen.
By contrast, the Dictionary of Geological Terms defines a natural bridge as a " natural arch that spans a valley of erosion.
The Red River valley formed a natural geographic and economic unit, bounded to the north and west by mountains and jungles, to the east by the sea and to the south by the Red River Delta.
All these patches of natural habitat are disconnected and this is particularly damaging for wildlife that is used to migrating along the rivers of the valley, birds such as warblers and cuckoos, and reptiles and amphibians.
The county is popular with tourists due to the natural beauty of the Illinois River valley and its proximity to the Great River Road.
The ice sheet closed the natural drainage from the Vale of Pickering, the Humber and The Wash so that a lake of a complex shape formed in the Vale of Pickering, the Yorkshire Ouse valley, the lower Trent valley and the Fenland basin.
Green symbolizes the native Indian heritage as well as the natural tropical valley where the city is located.
Some believe these terraces at the bottom of this valley are the result of medieval farming, or alternatively were used for early farming after being formed by natural processes.
Towers sited here at the natural corner of the California Central Valley have line of sight coverage of flat valley floor for over 60 miles ( 100 kilometers ) to the north and to the south-southeast, and quite good coverage into the Sierra foothills and mountains across the valley to the northeast and east.
Stockton is located on the natural trail up the valley of the South Solomon River and where the military supply trail from Fort Kearney, Nebraska, to Fort Hays, Kansas, crossed the South Solomon River.
New Ashford sits in a small natural valley within the Taconic Mountains ( popularly grouped with the Berkshires ).
The city's name derives from a geological formation known as Warm Springs Mound which contained natural saline that made for a natural salt lick for the local deer population, the protected valley in which Deer Lodge is located was where most of the local wildlife would winter as the temperatures lowered in the high country.
natural and aquifer
Shelby County is located over four natural aquifers, one of which is recognized as the " Memphis sand aquifer " or simply as the " Memphis aquifer ".
One aquifer has several natural hot springs in the Desert Hot Springs Sub-Basin and they support the area's spas and resorts.
Despite occasional droughts throughout central Indiana, Fortville has a steady and reliable supply of water because it is situated over a natural aquifer.
Harriet Crawford finds this " mixing of the waters " to be a natural feature of the middle Persian Gulf, where fresh waters from the Arabian aquifer mix and mingle with the salt waters of the sea.
First, flood mitigation schemes, intended to protect infrastructure built on floodplains, have had the unintended consequence of reducing aquifer recharge associated with natural flooding.
This occurs because in its natural equilibrium state, the hydraulic pressure of groundwater in the pore spaces of the aquifer and the aquitard supports some of the weight of the overlying sediments.
The chalk, which dates from the Cretaceous period, is a natural aquifer that forms the source for Kingsdown Water, which is extracted to the north west of the village.
There is a natural spring on the island which is the endpoint of an aquifer originating in the Coromandel peninsula.
In 1998 a solution was devised to drain the water back into the aquifer, using natural ground filtration, thus recycling the precious natural resource, while allowing the pool to maintain its fresh, clear water.
The first signs of dropping ground water levels was the drying up of natural springs in the 1930s, which coincides with the beginning of intensive exploitation of the aquifer system through wells between deep.
natural and is
( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.
For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;
In addition, they have been converted to Zen Buddhism, with its glorification of all that is `` natural '' and mysteriously alive, the sense that everything in the world is flowing.
But the natural condition for the heavenly bodies is neither rest, nor rectilinear motion.
The natural and primary aesthetic attitude is to enjoy contemporary art, to despise and dislike the art of the recent past, and wholly to ignore everything else ''.
His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.
An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.
This truth that the moral law is natural has other important corollaries.
And the entirety of the natural world is party to the action.
Hence the natural setting of tragedy is the palace gate, the public square, or the court chamber.
But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the recreation spot of people from all over the country.
Public sentiment for conserving our rich natural heritage is growing.
He won't submit to his natural desires all the time, and it's Mother's love that is responsible for his good behavior.
I once heard a comedian say that if you are killed by a taxicab in New York, it is listed as `` death due to natural causes ''.
Each one of these is, by its nature, a focal point or a point of natural congestion.
When one powerful nation strives to emulate the success of another, it is only natural.
The impression was unmistakable that, whatever one may choose to call it, natural law is a functioning generality with a certain objective existence.
This cooling does not change the avocado in any way, it just delays the natural softening of the fruit until a grovelike temperature ( room temperature ) is restored.
The effect of the recording is very open and natural, with the frequency emphasis exactly what you would expect from a live performance.
The spectacular upsurge in pleasure boating is markedly evident, expectedly, in the areas where boats have always been found: the natural lakes, rivers, and along the nation's coastline.
A tour of several of them is possible in a two-week vacation while a stay at just one of these natural beauty spots can be of equal reward.
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