Sentences with phrase «maputaland coastal plain»

Fires are also getting worse across the Eastern U.S. coastal plain, and they increased the most in the Northern Rocky Mountain region.

The coastal plain of Libya could grow it And nowhere else.

They must have settled sometime around 1200 B.C. in the coastal plain between the Mediterranean and the Judean hill country.

occupied a territory in the sparsely settled central hill country of Canaan bounded on the cast by the Jordan, on the west by the coastal plains, and on the north and south by strong Canaanite city - states.

(It is not accidental that tours of the Holy Land tend to avoid the coastal plains: the ancient cities there were Philistine and Phoenician, not Israelite.)

[246][248] Tourism Landmarks, National Border, Region and Terrestrial plain of the 4th Republic of Ghana Coastal Plain Accra, Apam, Cape Coast, Elmina, Kakum National Park, Kokrobite, Nzulezo, Sekondi - Takoradi, Ada Foah The Gulf of Guinea coastal plain with the seat of government and capital city, several castles and forts and the best preserved rainforest in Ghana Ashanti - Kwahu Koforidua, Kumasi, Obuasi, Sunyani Forested hills and the ancient Kingdom of Ashanti Volta Basin Tamale massive and world's largest Lake Volta, the river system that feeds it and Ghana eastern border crossing Northern Plains Wa, Bolgatanga, Mole National Park Savanna plains and north Ghana trade route and border crossing

«Developing our resources on the coastal plain is an important facet for meeting our nation's energy demands and achieving energy dominance,» said Interior's assistant secretary for land and minerals management, Joe Balash.

Drilling would be limited to the 1.6 - million - acre coastal plain.

And at their meeting in February, they also considered geologic evidence that a big tsunami in 869 C.E. had swept several kilometers inland across the same coastal plain inundated in March.

Thousands of ponds are scattered like mirrors across Alaska's coastal plain, providing nesting and feeding grounds for waterfowl.

You are gazing north, and before you lies a broad, flat coastal plain.

Along the southern Piedmont from Virginia to Alabama — that stretch of rolling terrain between the Appalachian Mountains and the coastal plain of the Atlantic Ocean — clay soils built up for many millennia.

Scientists assumed that passive continental margins, like the Atlantic coastal plain and offshore sea floor, have no geologic forces pushing them up.

Some 32,000 years ago, a coastal plain joined Japan to the Asian mainland, allowing travelers to tramp back and forth by foot.

Laterite rock formations are prominent landscape features in the coastal plains of southwest India.

Small temporary ponds are numerous on the coastal plain surrounding Lake St. Lucia.

The St Lucia lake itself is generally brackish and is located on a large sandy expanse known as the Maputaland coastal plain.

The Southeast, especially the coastal plains from Louisiana through Virginia, could create a bottleneck for species trying to move north away from rising temperatures and sea levels.

«The coastal plain is the biological heart of the refuge.

When the river reached the coastal plain, side channels — smaller rivers and bayous — peeled off.

The fight over whether to open a 1.5 - million - acre section of ANWR's coastal plain has played out before and has always been divisive.

It remains an open question exactly how much oil — and therefore revenue — could come from drilling in the coastal plain of ANWR, in part because it's been nearly two decades since the U.S. Geological Survey has conducted a resource assessment of the area.

Alaska Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack said his office gets asked if there would be demand for leases in the coastal plain all the time, and he believes there would be strong demand if the region was opened up for development.

Opponents of drilling in the coastal plain point to the very vehicle in which Congress is trying to open it up — through the special budget reconciliation process that requires just 51 votes in the Senate — as evidence that through traditional channels they still do not have the political will to drill in the Arctic refuge.

Murkowski, a Republican, introduced a bill on Wednesday that would create an oil and gas exploration program on the refuge's coastal plain, letting prospectors build any roads and other infrastructure they deemed necessary inside the refuge to carry out their operations.

The scientists said drilling on the coastal plain would be particularly harmful because it contains a «unique compression» of habitats supporting animals like polar bears, grizzly bears, wolverines, representing «the greatest wildlife diversity of any protected area above the Arctic Circle.»

For mid-latitude coasts that border subduction zones, sequences of buried soils may provide a long - duration, subsidence stratigraphic paleoseismic record that spans to the present, but in other settings such as the Aceh coastal plain, joint research approaches, for example targeted foraminiferal analyses and palynology, are required to both exploit the changing form of the relative sea - level curve and characterize coastal evolution in the context of the diminishing importance of accommodation space.

They found a record of successive earthquakes in a sequence of stacked tsunami deposits on the coastal plain.

The Sicilian industry, debilitated by ages of market speculation, usury and local vendette, late in the last century, staggered under the shock of news of the opening up of an immense deposit of sulphur on the gulf coastal plain of Louisiana.

Interests: Forest and grassland biogeochemistry, conservation biology; coastal plain ponds and grassland restoration on Martha's Vineyard (MA) and deforestation in Brazil.

in the Atlantic coastal plain of southeastern Virginia.

As the climate warmed, the Neanderthals accessed the site by coastal plains connected to France.

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Rocky Mount is a city in Edgecombe and Nash counties in the Atlantic coastal plain region of the U.S. state of North Carolina.

I'm a writer who loves the sea, and wide horizons, the greenness of coastal plains and the openness of moors, and high country tussock land, all the skin and bones of our lovely planet.

Sea mist can be dense on the coastal plain.

Raleigh is a city of 1.2 million people in a part of North Carolina where the hills meet the coastal plain.

This eastern North Carolina city on the coastal plain has ideal terrain for agriculture.

When the Israelites were dispersed from their homeland by the Romans 2,000 years ago, most of the Israeli dogs were left to fend for themselves in the Sebulon coastal plain and Negev desert.

Montana De Oro State Park This park features rugged cliffs, secluded sandy beaches, coastal plains, streams, canyons, and hills, including 1,347 - foot Valencia Peak.

This park features over 8,000 acres of rugged cliffs, secluded sandy beaches, coastal plains, and panoramic views of the coastline.

Yes, it's part of the United States, English is spoken, and the dollar is used — but Alaska's wild coastal plains, towering snow - capped mountains, and glacier - rimmed fjords have a way of making you feel worlds away from home.

The Mexican beach resort city of Puerto Vallarta is located on a narrow coastal plain at the foot of the Sierra Madre Occidental on the Pacific Ocean's Bay of Banderas.

With a dramatic landscape comprising vast networks of tall peaks, green craters and coastal plains, Sao Jorge offers the ideal scenery for hiking holidays.

The most visually striking of these regions is distinguished by the Maya Mountains and the associated basins and plateaus that dominate all but the narrow coastal plain in the southern half of the country.

Alluvial deposits of varying fertility cover the relatively flat landscapes of the coastal plains.

There is a low coastal plain, much of it covered with mangrove swamp, but the land rises gradually towards the interior.The Maya Mountains and the Cockscomb Range form the backbone of the southern half of the country, the highest point being Victoria Peak (3,669 feet) in the Cockscomb Range.

The coastal plains of northern Zululand extend 250 kilometers southward from the Maputo River floodplain to Lake St Lucia.

Lying inland from the coast between the mouth of the Orange River and Port Nolloth, the area regarded as the Richtersveld is 8 000 square kilometres of coastal plain and sandveld, to the east of which lies the true Richtersveld — 3 000 square kilometres of geologically complex desert mountainland.

Small villages are scattered among a landscape devoted to farming, covered in forests or opening to windswept coastal plains.