These mountains lavished Crete with valleys, such as Amari valley, fertile plateaus, such as Lasithi plateau, Omalos and Nidha ; caves, such as Diktaion and Idaion ( the birthplace of the ancient Greek god Zeus ); and a number of gorges.

These other rivers are important, not as transportation routes, but because of the broad fertile valleys they have produced.

These valleys were fertile because the soil there was rich and could bear lots of root crops.

These systems may be used to achieve pregnancy by timing unprotected intercourse for days identified as fertile, or to avoid pregnancy by restricting unprotected intercourse to days identified as infertile.

These fertile plains consist of tropical seasonal moist deciduous, dry deciduous forests, and both dry and wet savannas that are home to chital, hog deer, barasingha, Indian sambar, and Indian muntjac.

These disputes are often related to the possession of natural resources such as rivers, fertile farmland, mineral or oil resources although the disputes can also be driven by culture, religion and ethnic nationalism.

These scales bear two or three fertile flowers, each flower consisting of a naked ovary.

These narrow rivers have carved fertile valleys in which exuberant vegetation creates a stark contrast to the bone-dry hills.

These marshes rank among the most fertile of Germany's soils.

These people came because of the tall, virgin pine forests, fertile lands of the river valley and more " elbow room.

These hills are part of the Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley Province, which is characterized by fertile river valleys flanked by narrow, elongate ridges.

These floods brought high water and natural nutrients and minerals that annually enriched the fertile soil along the floodplain and delta ; this had made the Nile valley ideal for farming since ancient times.

These non-migratory Mallards interbreed with indigenous wild ducks from local populations of closely related species through genetic pollution by producing fertile offspring.

These rocks now form many sharp hills and mountains in the Valley, lending it much of its picturesque beauty ... During the Triassic time, Massachusetts's portion of the Connecticut River Valley formed a shallow arm of the sea ," leaving deposits that enriched the Pioneer Valley's inordinately fertile soil.

These were situated to the north of the present pond, in an area of more fertile land between barren heathland commons.

These fictional worlds were the product of fertile imagination fed by reading, discussion, and a passion for literature.

These territories abounded in water, a precious commodity in Canaan, and the mountainous portions not only afforded protection, but happened to be highly fertile ; early centres of Israelite religion-Shechem and Shiloh-were additionally situated in the region.

These levees made thousands of acres of fertile marshlands available for agricultural production.

These farmers chose to farm commercially on the more fertile upland regions where the rainfall was higher.

These developments would lead to the more fertile time for English translations in the Early Modern English period.

These were concentrated in fertile river valleys: The Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia, the Nile in Egypt, the Indus in India, and the Yangtze and Yellow River in China.

These are classes IV, V and VI soils, i. e. the least fertile types of soil.

These river flats and swamp areas contain fertile alluvial and organic soils.

These official channels are complemented by the personal ties between members of Kiel University and their fellow scholars around the world, which enrich the fertile exchange of students and knowledge.

These zones represent a wide variety of geographical features, including plains, oceans, cities, deserts, and other planes of existence.

These plains slope southward from the morainic Salpausselkä Ridges in southern Finland.

These tributaries cross the highest mountains in deep gorges, flow south through the Middle Hills, then join in candelabra-like configuration before crossing the Mahabharat Range and emerging onto the plains where they have deposited megafans exceeding area.

These dams, along with a series of headworks and barrages built by the British and expanded since independence, are of vital importance to the national economy and played an important role in calming the raging floodwaters of 1992, which devastated large areas in the northern highlands and the Punjab plains.

These settlements had access to some of the richest plains in the country and after refrigerated ships appeared in 1882, they developed into closely settled regions of small-scale farming.

These enabled the states in the sub-Carpathian regions to consolidate their autonomy and to progressively extend their authority over the Danube plains.

These facts are not necessarily incompatible with Tacitus, as the western Sarmatians might have kept their iron to themselves, it having been a scarce commodity on the plains.

These include mining operations ( some open to the public ), a visitor's centre and lookout on top of the original Line of Lode mine, historic buildings, town history walking trails, many resident artists and galleries, the Sculpture Symposium, COBB & Co coach & wagon rides, Silverton Camel Farm, Stephen's Creek, several quarries, lakes, the Mundi-Mundi plains, and terrific sunsets.

These plains reach their widest point where they meet the hilly sub-region of Banks Peninsula.

These include the traces of a wall foundation on the plains near Pérolles.

These areas tended to resemble the flat plains of the Russian steppes.

These strata have overthrust eastward upon the Mesozoic strata of the plains.

These birds are also found at a variety of elevations, from the coastal plains to the highlands.

Before then, says Polybius, " These plains were anciently inhabited by Etruscans ", before the Gauls took the entire Po valley from them.

These bison were not only infected with brucellosis and tuberculosis, which infected the wood bison herd, but the wood and plains subspecies also interbred, and thus it was thought that wood bison were completely extinct by the 1940s.

These hills are separated by well developed flat plains and contain numerous caves and springs.

These boundaries enclose a broad high plateau and shallow interior basin that include Syria, Sinai, and Solis Plana ( see list of plains on Mars ).

These plains, with their east-west passages, served as routes for commercial caravans and military invasions throughout the ages.

These plains are characterized by many karst poljes ( e. g. the Gacko polje ).

These vast plains are a natural region only interrupted by the low Ventana and Tandil hills near Bahía Blanca and Tandil ( Argentina ), with a height of and respectively.

These plains contain unique wildlife because of the different terrains around it.

These remarkable photographs, taken over a span of thirty years, capture the magical moods and textures of a sublime, singular landscape-a rare retrospective of images taken by film director John Hanson as he rambled the back roads of the plains below the sky.

These camels are migratory, and their habitat ranges from rocky mountain massifs to flat arid desert, stony plains and sand dunes.

These agricultural plains lie to the south of the main town in the valley, a strip which expands into the western part of the municipality.