Sentences with phrase «flat topography»

Given Houston proper's flat topography, Harvey may drive investment out of the central city and into the surrounding suburbs.

Flat topography makes for easy clearing.

Workers this week are trying to gauge the extent of Hurricane Harvey's damage on Harris County Flood Control District infrastructure, a network of 2,500 miles of bayous, creeks and drainage ditches designed to drain water out of Houston's flat topography and into Galveston Bay.

The flat topography seen from a plane over Greenland is in sharp contrast to the jagged features found to be underlying much of the ice sheet.

Flat topography, gorgeous trees, privacy and closeness to all Nosara has to offer are some of the assets this property presents.

This 7 ha jungle «finca» is titled, with a flat topography and a vast amount of land which is fenced all around.

The tsunami inundation in Ventura / Oxnard is significant in the model owing to a combination of factors: large slip and seafloor displacement from the modeled earthquake scenario, refraction, focusing, and Ventura / Oxnard's flat topography that facilitates water flowing inland.

Its flat topography has left it vulnerable to invading armies from the time of the medieval Mongols to the Poles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the Nazi Germans in the twentieth.

Not exact matches

And recently, researchers analyzing the planet's topography reported convincing evidence that a flat plain does, indeed, mark the site of an ancient sea.

The topography of East Africa completely changed: from a homogeneous flat region covered in moist forest, to a mountainous landscape with plateaus and deep rift valleys, where vegetation varied from cloud forest to desert scrub.

The flat, flat, flat of this side of the continent has me constantly craving some topography!

There was an ever - changing topography featuring reef flats, tunnels gullies and drop - offs.

Lombok's topography varies tremendously, including lush mountainous forests with plunging waterfalls, scenic coastlines of headlands interspersed with sweeping bays, empty beaches, flat rice fields and dry scrubby hills, all looked over by volcanic Mt Rinjani.

The property topography is mostly flat with some gentle slopes ideal for landscaping different areas.

The reefs are the marine jewels of Belize's diving crown and can boast an extraordinary diversity of reef topography including sandy reef - flat areas, walls, grooves and channels, caves and caverns.

These flat, ceramic works bear mineral - rich glazes and evoke shifting topographies, constellations and biological formations.

If we're looking at a flat, large region in the middle of a continent, we may have better luck than if we're looking at a coastal region with complex topography.)