But the shelter is as much a part of my landscape as the beech and horse-chestnut trees that grow on the ridge.

The depth of water at the apex of the ridge is less than in most places, while the bottom of the ridge is three times as deep.

Deflection is also seen as it passes over the mid-ocean ridge in the Southeast Pacific.

This northward Ekman transport is balanced by a southward, pressure-driven flow below the depths of the major ridge systems.

Its highest rise is the conical Mount Oros ( 531 m ) in the south, and the Panhellenian ridge stretches northward with narrow fertile valleys on either side.

It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge ().

The highest peak along the ridge line above Berkeley is Grizzly Peak, elevation.

The head is flat, U-shaped and has a prominent ridge running from the blowhole to the top of the upper lip.

" Bank " is also used in some parts of the world to refer to an artificial ridge of earth intended to retain the water of a river or pond.

The keel is a strong median ridge running down the length of the sternum.

To the north it is framed by the Rennsteig ridge of the Thuringian Forest, the Thuringian Highland and the Franconian Forest, the border with the Upper Saxon lands of Thuringia.

East of the plain and the Shephelah is a mountainous ridge, the " hill country of Judah " in the south, the " hill country of Ephraim " north of that, then Galilee and the Lebanon mountains.

The Greenstone Ridge is a high ridge in the center of the island and carries the longest trail in the park, the Greenstone Ridge Trail, which runs 40 miles ( 60 km ) from one end of the island to the other.

On the north, the main defining feature is the fault-based " Escarpment ", a long ridge that extends from Flagstaff in the west, through Windsor in the centre, to Campbells and the start of the Barbecue Bottom Road ( B10 ).

The most prominent part is the middle ridge, or shinogi.

The terrain is principally mountainous and arid, with a ridge of mountains running through the spine of the island.

Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru.

The meaning of Maggieknockater is " field of the fuller " or " plain of the hilly ridge " and has nothing to do with a woman called Maggie.

In the southwest, it is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a submarine ridge running between Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

Nauru is a raised coral atoll positioned in the Nauru Basin of the Pacific Ocean, on a part of the Pacific Plate that formed at a mid oceanic ridge at 132 Ma.

New Zealand is a mountainous above-water promontory in its center, and New Caledonia is a promontory ridge on the continent's northern edge.

A lofty isolated ridge formed its acropolis.

These eastern mountains are formed by a central ridge of metamorphic rock running northwest to southeast from which many long spurs jut to the north and south.

The Mississippi River flows along a ridge formed by its own deposits ( known as a levee ), from which the lands decline toward a river beyond at an average fall of six feet per mile ( 3 m / km ).

Where the mid-oceanic ridge is above sea-level, volcanic islands are formed, for example, Iceland.

The English soldiers formed up as a shield wall along the ridge, and were at first so effective that William's army was thrown back with heavy casualties.

A drumlin, from the Irish word droimnín (" little ridge "), first recorded in 1833, is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground moraine.

By this implement, the earth is pared away from the sides of the drills, and a sort of new ridge formed in the middle of the former interval.

The Thimphu valley, so formed, is delimited by a steep eastern ridge that rises from the riverbed and a valley formation with gradually sloping topography, extending from Dechencholing and Simtokha, on the western banks of the Thimphu Chuu.

The English soldiers formed up as a shield wall along the ridge, and were at first so effective that William's army was thrown back with heavy casualties.

This is because it is far older than other islands formed on the ridge, which lie much closer to the ridge ( including Iceland, The Azores, Ascension Island, etc .).

Most natural arches form as a narrow ridge, walled by cliffs, become narrower from erosion, with a softer rock stratum under the cliff-forming stratum gradually eroding out until the rock shelters thus formed meet underneath the ridge, thus forming the arch.

* Arête, a thin ridge of rock that is formed by glaciers.

That divide is a ridge that formed a natural, pioneer highway from Sparta to Kell, perhaps properly called the " Highway to Kell ".

Oceanic crust is formed at an oceanic ridge, while the lithosphere is subducted back into the asthenosphere at trenches.

Seafloor spreading is a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge.

Hess ' theory was that new seafloor is formed when magma is forced upward toward the surface at a mid-ocean ridge.

This divergent boundary first formed in the Triassic period when a series of three-armed grabens coalesced on the supercontinent Pangaea to form the ridge.

The Spanish quickly formed up between the town and the ridge.

By 3: 30 p. m., Houston had formed his men into battle lines for the impending assault, screened from Mexican view by trees and by a slight ridge that ran across the open prairie between the opposing armies.

As the plane circled, the freezing rain formed a ridge of ice on the upper surface of its wings, eventually causing the aircraft's autopilot to suddenly disconnect and the pilots to lose control.

This recognition was tied to two events: ( 1 ) the observation of magnetic anomaly stripes on the seafloor, parallel to oceanic ridge systems, interpreted by Frederick Vine and Drummond Matthews to represent the formation of new crust at the oceanic ridge and its subsequent symmetric spreading away from that ridge, and ( 2 ) the observation of a sheeted dike complex within the Troodos ophiolite ( Cyprus ) by Ian Graham Gass and co-workers, which must have formed by repetitive extension of crust and intrusion of magma resulting in a formation consisting of 100 % dikes with no older wall rocks preserved within the complex.