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The plateau lands west of the escarpment are of moderate elevation-perhaps averaging It is, however, only along the Zambezi and north of that river that Mozambique's territory reaches to the continental plateau.
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Leaving the largest part of their supplies behind, the Helvetii covered around 60 km in four days, eventually reaching the lands of the Lingones ( the modern Langres plateau ).
The western plateau slopes gently southward and merges imperceptibly into an area known as the Haud, a broad, undulating terrain that constitutes some of the best grazing lands for Somali nomads, despite the lack of appreciable rainfall more than half the year.
The Fall Line is where the hilly lands of the Piedmont plateau meet the flat terrain of the coastal plain.
The high plateau barrier and the ruggedness of the Castle Valley landscape delayed settlement of the region until the late 1870s, when population growth and expanding livestock herds in Utah's central valleys stimulated a search for new agricultural and grazing lands.
It was a fragile peace, however, as the Seljuks wanted to push from the arid central plateau of Asia Minor into the more fertile coastal lands, while the Byzantines wanted to recover the Anatolian territory they had lost since the Battle of Manzikert one hundred years earlier.
Kumyks (, qumuqlar, ) are a Turkic people living in the Kumyk plateau in north Dagestan and south Terek, and the lands bordering the Caspian Sea.
The terms " Allegheny Plateau " and the " Cumberland Plateau " both refer to the dissected plateau lands lying west of the main Appalachian Mountains.
Charles Lyell not only confirmed the enormous geological time periods of the stratifications, but indicated that the chalk plateau of Picardy, France had once been connected to the chalk lands of Kent, England and that the Strait of Dover or Pas de Calais was the recent result of very long term complex erosion forces.
Balconies in the Plaza de Armas in CuzcoThe Pampa de Anta, a plateau, contains some of Anta Province, and Cusco's best communal cultivated lands.
Bucaramanga is located on a plateau in the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes, and many residents occupy unstable lands descending steeply from the meseta.
Bankura district has been described as the “ connecting link between the plains of Bengal on the east and Chota Nagpur plateau on the west .” The areas to the east and north-east are low lying alluvial plains, similar to predominating rice lands of Bengal.
The southern and western edges of the plateau give way to broad valleys with soils resulting from glaciation, providing some of Cape Breton's best agricultural lands.
The lands of the northern plateau of the parish were recorded as the most productive on the island, with extensive fields that produced wheat ; Lieutenant-Colonel José Carlos Figueiredo, writing in 1815, while in service on the island noted: "... site of the best lands, in squared fields and a good plain of orchards ...".
They migrate across the plateau during the year, moving from their winter grazing lands on the east side of the Hardangervidda, where they graze on lichen, to their breeding grounds in the more fertile west of the plateau.
The Tūwharetoa region extends from Te Awa o te Atua ( Tarawera River ) at Matata across the central plateau of the North Island to the lands around Mount Tongariro and Lake Taupo.
plateau and west
In the northern part of this plateau, west of Jackson county, there are about of level highlands from above sea level.
The South African plateau, as far as about 12 ° S, is bounded east, west and south by bands of high ground which fall steeply to the coasts.
Both in the east and west of the continent the bordering highlands are continued as strips of plateau parallel to the coast, the Ethiopian mountains being continued northwards along the Red Sea coast by a series of ridges reaching in places a height of.
Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura mountains, and is west of Zurich.
The plateau, on whose centre stands the town of Ajmer, may be considered as the highest point in the plains of North India ; from the circle of hills which hem it in, the country slopes away on every side-towards river valleys on the east, south, west and towards the Thar Desert region on the north.
To the west of the Petite Gheete rises the plateau of Mont St. André ; a second plain, the plateau of Jandrenouille – upon which the Anglo-Dutch army amassed – rises to the east.
diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north
The vast, low-lying central area is a basin-shaped plateau sloping toward the west, covered by tropical rainforest and criss-crossed by rivers, a large area of this has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Central Congolian lowland forests ecoregion.
vast central plateau covered by tropical rainforest, surrounded by mountains in the west, plains and savanna in the south / southwest, and grasslands in the north.
Two parallel mountain ranges cross El Salvador to the west with a central plateau between them and a narrow coastal plain hugging the Pacific.
To the west of this ridge lies a plateau in the center of the island ranging in altitude from above sea level.
In the west the flora resembles that of central Europe, while in the east it is distinctly Mediterranean in character, though the difference of latitude is only about 1 °, on both sides of the chain from the centre whence the Corbières stretch north-eastwards towards the central plateau of France.
Across the peninsula as a whole, the plateau slopes toward the east from an elevation of 1, 360 meters in the west to 750 meters at its easternmost limit.
The heart of Nejd is the area of the Jabal Tuwayq, an arc-shaped ridge with a steep west face that rises between 100 and 250 meters above the plateau.
The Meseta Central (" Inner Plateau ") is a vast plateau in the heart of peninsular Spain, has elevations that range from 610 to 760 m. Rimmed by mountains, the Meseta Central slopes gently to the west and to the series of rivers that form some of the border with Portugal.
It is divided into a coastal zone — with a narrow, double mountain belt enclosing a depression in the west — and a much larger eastern plateau.
Other territories lost before Seleucus ' death were Gedrosia in the south-east of the Iranian plateau, and, to the north of this, Arachosia on the west bank of the Indus River.
Mountains ring the plateau on the west and the south, and the Mekong delineates much of the northern and ea
There is a low ridge from Messines Ridge 80m ( 264 feet ) at its highest point, running north-east past " Clapham Junction " at the west end of Gheluvelt plateau ( 2 1 / 2 miles from Ypres at and Gheluvelt ( above ) to Passchendaele, ( 5 1 / 2 miles from Ypres at ) declining from there to a plain further north.
Around the estuary of the Tocantins the great plateau has disappeared, to give place to a part of the forest-covered, half submerged alluvial plain, which extends far to the north-east and west.
Bern lies on the Swiss plateau in the Canton of Bern, slightly west of the centre of Switzerland and north of the Bernese Alps.
It was built on a plain running north / northwest-southeast, and surrounded by the Murgia plateau from the north west to the east.
plateau and escarpment
The western edge of this plateau country forms an escarpment along the eastern side of the Jordan River-Dead Sea depression and its continuation south of the Dead Sea.
Orographically the backbone of the country is the mountain chain which forms the eastern escarpment of the continental plateau.
The Ek-tagh or Mongolian Altai, which separates the Khovd basin on the north from the Irtysh basin on the south, is a true border-range, in that it rises in a steep and lofty escarpment from the Dzungarian depression ( 470 – 900 m ), but descends on the north by a relatively short slope to the plateau ( 1, 150 to 1, 680 m ) of north-western Mongolia.
The low-lying coastal zone is narrow for much of that distance, soon giving way to a mountainous escarpment ( Great Escarpment ) that separates the coast from the high inland plateau.
Located on the precipitous escarpment on the east of the undulating Northern Tablelands plateau, the wilderness consists of impressive cliffs, rugged ridges, spurs and streams.
There are five visitor areas with basic facilities — three on the eastern side near the edge of the escarpment, and two on the west, on the plateau.
There are six main landforms in Kakadu National Park: the Arnhem Land plateau and escarpment complex, known as the stone country ; the outliers ; the lowlands ; the southern hills and basins ; the floodplains ; and the tidal flats.
Most of Kakadu was under a shallow sea approximately 140 million years ago, with the escarpment wall formed from sea cliffs and Arnhem Land from a flat plateau above the sea.
Currently the escarpment rises 330 metres above the plateau and extends approximately 500 kilometres along the East edge of the park and on into Arnhem Land.
Due in part to the fact that Austrian Corps on other sectors of the battlefield failed to attack at the same time, Rosenberg was forced to draw his troop back to their initial positions, occupying the plateau and the strategic village of Markgrafneusiedl, situated just below the escarpment.
During this manoeuvre, Nostitz's cavalry, placed initially on the plain below the escarpment, were pushed back and forced up the slope of the plateau by Grouchy's and Pully's dragoons ; the Austrian horse subsequently redeployed to protect Nordmann's flank.
The source of the Tugela River ( Zulu for ' sudden ') is the Mont-Aux-Sources plateau which extends several kilometers beyond The Amphitheatre escarpment from which the falls drop.
Much of the interior of southern Africa consists of a high plateau, the higher portions ( 1500 m-2100 m ) of which are known as the Highveld, starting at the Drakensberg escarpment to the east of the Johannesburg, and sloping gradually downwards to the west and south west, as well as to the north into Limpopo Province.
In some areas there is a distinct escarpment bordering the plateau, while in others the boundary is not obvious.
The lower regions of the central plateau to the north of the Highveld, especially the Limpopo River lowlands, as well as the areas beyond of the Drakensberg escarpment in Mpumalanga, to the north east of the Highveld, are known as Lowveld and are generally hotter and less intensely cultivated.
The arid lower plateau regions to the west, south and south west of the Highveld are not generally referred to as " Lowveld ", nor is KwaZulu-Natal beyond the escarpment to the east.
It consists of a narrow, arid coastal plain bounded by the steep escarpment of a broad plateau ( al-Jol, averaging ), with a very sparse network of deeply sunk wadis ( seasonal watercourses ).
At, Cholesbury is one of the smallest villages in the County and is located within Chiltern downland landscape on the upland plateau and close to the chalk escarpment which overlooks the Aylesbury Vale.
A large number of common names are used for this tree, including " Virginia live oak ", " bay live oak ", " scrub live oak ", " plateau oak ", " plateau live oak ", " escarpment live oak ", and ( in Spanish ) " encino ".
They can also be caused by the surface wind blowing over an escarpment or plateau, or even by upper winds deflected over a thermal updraft or cloud street.
fusiformis ), commonly known as Texas live oak, escarpment live oak, or plateau live oak, is an evergreen or nearly evergreen tree.
The town is located on the edge of an elevated plateau ( the Illawarra escarpment ) about 35 km from the coast.
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