Although most of the mountainous western region is forested, most of the remaining areas of the parish are populated with smaller species of herbaceous bushes, trees and pasturelands, until the Ponta de São Lourenço where vegetation is limited to sparse low-lying grasses.

The site is of biological interest consisting of low-lying grazing meadows, hosting a wide variety of wetland flora and fauna.

The site is of biological interest consisting of low-lying grazing meadows, hosting a wide variety of wetland flora and fauna.

Thus, Mare Marginis seems to mark a low-lying region of the highlands where mare lavas were just able to reach the surface.

Charge-transfer complexes can also be formed between iodine and a metal ion, in which electrons in the filled π * orbitals of iodine molecules were donated to the empty, low-lying 5s and 5d orbitals, meanwhile back donation from the metal occurs, which weakens and lengthens the I — I bond.

Coastal Hangklip Sand Fynbos grows on low-lying alkaline sands and, right by the sea, small patches of Cape Flats Dune Strandveld can be found.

The county can be divided into four major geographic divisions: the low-lying and relatively flat valley of Pumpkin Creek, which occupies about 40 % of the county's area ; a tableland, in places smooth and in others deeply dissected, occupying the southern one-third of the county ; the Wildcat Hills, a highly dissected escarpment that crosses the northwestern portion of the county ; and a small portion of the North Platte River valley in the northeastern corner of the county.

Their apparent preference for hilly terrain may be partly due to the earlier conversion of most of the plains and other low-lying areas to croplands and pastures.

At this time, the low-lying areas began to be filled.

Additionally, Lorton can be considered low-lying as compared to most of Fairfax County.

The spectral function for the system can be directly observed via ARPES experiment, and can be written ( in the limit of low-lying excitations ) in the form:

Standing near the entrance to the Valley, over the centuries it suffered the fate of other low-lying tombs, which was to be filled with rubble washed down in the flash floods that accompany thunderstorms over the Valley.

It can also be found in some low-lying bogs and birds may visit farmland during hard weather.

The Maldives, a country consisting of very low-lying islands, would be one of the first countries to be submerged due to sea level rise.

Finally, there may be a link between the local geography and the building of motte and bailey castles, which are usually built on low-lying areas, in many cases subject to regular flooding.

In the Netherlands, cheap brick started to be used in castles from 13th century onwards in place of earthworks, and many mottes were levelled, to help develop the surrounding, low-lying fields ; these " levelled mottes " are a particularly Dutch phenomenon.

By 1883-84, the Montreal-based CPR syndicate, in collaboration with the Hudson's Bay Company, clearly preferred the low-lying lands along the lower Kaministiquia River to the exposed shores of Port Arthur, which required an expensive breakwater if shipping and port facilities were to be protected from the waves.

The spire can be seen for long distances across the low-lying countryside.

From west to east, the topography can be summarised as moderately-high mountains, then low-lying mountains, hills, basin, and finally plains.

He casts one eye towards a point on the ridge sure to be taken by the Rurales, and with the other he gazes off in the opposite direction out past a low-lying treeline towards the border and safety.

Such wetlands can then be used to accommodate runoff and surges without causing damage to the structures while also protecting conventional structures at somewhat higher low-lying elevations, provided that dikes prevent major surge intrusion.

The low-lying eastern part of the oblast used to be subject to the frequent Dnieper flooding before the flow of the river became controlled by multiple dams of Hydroelectric Power Plants constructed along the river in the 20th century.

It may be found in damper areas in woods in low-lying situations.

On flat or low-lying ground, the privy hole can be further protected from rain and floodwaters by constructing a small raised hill or berm around the edge of the hole, using material from the hole when the pit is first excavated, to raise up the outhouse foundation.

Gattie who asserted, based on unsourced legends, that the sands were once the fertile low-lying island of Lomea, which he equated with an island said to be known to the Romans as Infera Insula (" Low Island ").

Much of the neighborhood is on landfill: in pioneer times, the area roughly between First and Second Avenue, bounded on the south by Jackson Street, and extending north almost to Yesler Way ( about two-and-a-half city blocks ) was a low-lying offshore island.

Some parts of the low-lying areas, including Skeetkill Creek Marsh, have been set apart as nature reserves and extension of system that connects to the Overpeck Reserve and Overpeck County Park.

The toponym is said to come from " Marsh-town ", because of the low-lying nature of the land near the River Cherwell, which in earlier times was liable to frequent flooding.

Because of the low-lying nature of the peninsula, which this part of Florida lies, this lake and the area around it certainly would have been flooded and obliterated along with many of the other lakes and bogs described in their and other publications.

Its low-lying nature does pose problems, making it prone to flooding after heavy rains.

Mainly terrestrial with fresh and brackish water environments, the county would, despite its low-lying nature, remain largely without marine influences except for some minor incursions at the end of the ice ages.

The Nor ' west arch can be seen as far north as Amberley and as far south as Central Otago, but it is at its most prominent on the Canterbury Plains, due to the flat and low-lying nature of the land to the east of the mountains.

The areas that suffered the most were the low-lying coastal zones, particularly in the floodplain of the Lempa and San Miguel Grande Rivers.

Iranians assert that it is a historical and internationally-recognized convention to name it the Persian Gulf, while Arab States, and most notably the six GCC member countries, have been claiming that the Gulf is Arabian since its shallow marine depths are a geological continuity of the Arabian peninsula's Eastern low-lying coasts, from Kuwait to the UAE's Northern Emirates.

The low-lying, sandy, coastal plain ( highest elevation 10 meters ) is, at most, 10 km wide.

In most parts of Bermuda, the soil is rarely more than a few inches deep, though, in some low-lying, inland areas it has collected quite deeply.

This is low-lying land and is home to most of the dairy farms on the estate, and also has some arable farms.

In prehistoric times, Piraeus was a rocky island consisting of the steep hill of Munichia, modern-day Kastella, and was connected to the mainland by a low-lying stretch of land that was flooded with sea water most of the year, and used as a salt field whenever it dried up.

Prior to the early 1950s, Shelter Key ( on which most of Key Colony Beach is located ) was a low-lying island.

The Fens are very low-lying compared with the chalk and limestone uplands that surround them – in most places no more than 10 m above sea level.

Jiangsu is very flat and low-lying, with plains covering 68 percent of its total area ( water covers another 18 percent ), and most of the province stands not more than above sea level.

While he did speculate that the catastrophe responsible for the most recent extinctions in Eurasia might have been the result of the inundation of low-lying areas by the sea, he did not make any reference to Noah's flood.

It had a short neck and small head, meaning it most likely ate low-lying bushes and shrubs.

Between these two escarpments the anticline has been subject to differential erosion so that geologically distinct areas of hills and vales lie in roughly concentric circles towards the centre ; these comprise the Greensand Ridge, most prominent on the north side of the Weald, where it includes Leith Hill, the highest hill in south-east England, the low-lying clay vales of the Low Weald, formed of less resistant Weald Clay, and finally the more highly resistant sandstones of the High Weald at the centre of the anticline, whose elevated forest ridge includes most notably Ashdown Forest.

It is low-lying and fertile, consequently most of the area is given over to farming.

Because water drained so slowly out of the most low-lying areas, some homeowners couldn't visit their damaged property until May.

The dominant overstorey is Acacia melanoxylon, Acacia dealbata, Acacia pycnantha, Eucalyptus cephalocarpa, Eucalyptus cypellocarpa ( in areas near Belgrave Lake Park ), Eucalyptus goniocalyx growing in and around Birdsland and Zig Zag Road, Eucalyptus obliqua growing through most of the area as well as in Belgrave South, Eucalyptus ovata which tends to grow in low-lying areas and Eucalyptus radiata which is quite common in the Belgrave South Primary school grounds with the very fine bark and peppermint smelling leaves.

Like most of his predecessors, Vahtola viewed Kainuu / Kvenland as the name of the coastal Ostrobothnia, meaning roughly " low-lying land ".

Its boundary ( going in a clockwise direction ) runs from its most northerly limit, near Carter ` s Corner Place, in a southerly direction around Magham Down, over the Herstmonceux road and crosses the low-lying farmlands, passing close to New Bridge and on across Horse Eye Level to Rickney.

This is most commonly observed in complexes with ligands having low-lying π * orbitals especially aromatic ligands.

In the 1920s, most of the low-lying marsh of Ashbridge's Bay was filled in to create Toronto's inner harbour area ( with the small section to the east and the shipping channel the only reminder of the body of water ).