Sentences with phrase «along the ridges of»

In addition to the brine dumped in at the northern end, run - off from Israeli fish farms and untreated sewage from Jewish settlements along the ridge of the Jordan Valley and from the Arab community of Jericho make their way into the river bed from the west.

It captures an area from Hallett Cove, across to Clarendon, and then roughly south then south - west along the ridge of the foothills until it meets the coast at Sellicks Beach.

Indeed, X-rays revealed spurs of cartilage growing along the ridges of Arazi's knee joints, raising the fear that, under the stress of training and racing, the spurs could eventually break off as painful chips.

Usually along the ridge of the back.

Hair along the ridge of the back grows opposite to the rest of the coat.

Torre di Moravola is a contemporary boutique hotel which was a 12th - century watchtower situated along the ridge of a mountain overlooking the Carpini valley in Umbria, Italy.

Manuel Antonio is spread along the ridge of the top road from Quepos to the Manuel Antonio National Park and is surrounded by dense jungle filled with exotic wildlife and -LSB-...]

A string of six tiny ocean liners that perch along the ridge of the wave return the viewer to the painting's marine subject.

Not exact matches

We hiked all day along the ridge occasionally walking out on the narrow pieces of rock that jutted from the main path — only three feet wide with hundreds of feet of cliff on each side.

Optionally, use the tines of a fork to create ridges along the outer edges of each ravioli.

Founded by the late entrepreneur and visionary Jess Jackson and his wife Barbara Banke, Kendall - Jackson is based in Sonoma County and offers a range of acclaimed wines grown in the family's estate vineyards along the coastal ridges of California.

In the fall of 1944, Charles Haynes led the First and Second platoons of Easy Company in an assault on a German position atop a ridge in the mountains along Italy's Arno River.

Ahead of us lies a 5K along the ridge line at almost 12,000 feet of elevation.

Sometimes breast tissue in the armpit or other parts of the body along the «mammary ridge» can become engorged initially after birth, with no outlet for the milk.

India currently wants Pakistan to authenticate the 110 - kilometre Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL) along the Siachen Glacier - Saltoro ridge in disputed Jammu and Kashmir, fearing Pakistan will move its soldiers forward in the event of an Indian pullout.

The study also showed that volcanic hot spots along the ridge — volcanoes near Iceland as well as the islands of Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, and elsewhere — all sit above warm spots in Earth's mantle.

The authors analyzed the chemistry of nearly 17,000 basalts formed along mid-ocean ridges around the globe.

Three basic forces are believed to drive oceanic plate movement: plates are «pushed» away from mid-ocean ridges as new sea floor forms; plates are «pulled» as the oldest parts of the plate dive back into the earth at subduction zones; and convection within the asthenosphere helps ferry the plates along.

In years of strong NAOs, most major hurricanes curved along the southern margin of the high - pressure ridge and then turned north to plow into the East Coast.

From the outside, a sperm whale head looks like a piece of gray clay that has been rolled into a short, fat sausage and then pinched to a slim ridge along its length on the bottom side.

The plume's more southern location, Toomey said, adds fuel to his group's findings, at three different sites along the globe encircling mid-ocean ridge (where 85 percent of Earth's volcanic activity occurs), that Earth's internal convection doesn't always adhere to modeling efforts and raises new questions about how ocean plates at Earth's surface — the lithosphere — interact with the hotter, more fluid asthenosphere that sits atop the mantle.

In their conclusion, the paper's five co-authors theorize that the plume material is carried to the mid-ocean ridge by a deep return flow centered in the asthenosphere rather than flowing along the base of the lithosphere as in modeling projections.

After four years of searching, he uncovered a skullcap with a simian - like brow ridge and a large brain case, along with other fragmentary fossils, buried near the Solo River on the Indonesian island of Java.

One of the great ironies of those historic housing patterns in Miami is that for decades under Jim Crow, laws and zoning restricted black people to parts of the urban core, an older part of the community that sits on relatively higher ground along a limestone ridge that runs like a topographic stripe down the eastern coast of South Florida.

The day was brisk, and he held the rock aloft, fixated on its one blemish: Along the entire length of the stone ran a single ridge, almost like a biology teacher's notation indicating what is known as the Brodel's line of the kidney.

Along with my fellow field assistant Keith Heyward, I was joining Marchant and his graduate student, Sean Mackay, flying 60 miles across the sea ice to the Dry Valleys, a series of valleys and ridges that lie roughly east to west and largely free of the ice that covers 98 percent of the continent.

Initially, he believed the birds were using «wave lift» to get a boost — capitalising on gusts of wind forced upwards by the sloping edges of waves to create updrafts like those found along cliffs or mountain ridges.

Move a couple of hundred meters to the east or west, and the explosion could have happened beneath a valley as opposed to a ridge — radically changing the depth estimates, along with estimates of the blast's power.

Axial lies on top of a segment midway along the ridge.

Some R. tigrinus snakes carry toxins called bufadienolides in their nuchal glands, sacks located under a ridge of skin along their upper necks.

On Thanksgiving weekend in 1995, Richard Thompson, a geology student looking for petrified wood in the Sonoran Desert about 40 miles southeast of Tucson, came upon bone fragments exposed along a sandstone ridge.

Typically, the pores of sweat glands lie along the tiny ridges that make up our fingerprints.

In California you can see rows of wind turbines along windy ridges and mountain passes.

In places (e.g., south of the dotted white arrow), the ridges run against the dotted boundaries, suggesting flow was once redirected along a valley wall.

To study the movement of vent products, the researchers set up sediment traps and current meters near the hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge located about 800 kilometers off the southern coast of Mexico and a mile and a half below sea level.

USGS sea lamprey expert Nick Johnson demonstrates the ridge of tissue, called a rope, along the back of a mature male sea lamprey.

Right: Maps show the extent and thickness of sand ridges along the ocean - facing side of Fire Island in 1996 (middle) and in 2014 (right), after Superstorm Sandy tore through the area.

«There were very few [indigenous] people living along the coast then,» says lead author and geologist Daniel Belknap of the University of Maine, and without humans to create the protective covering, newly formed beach ridges simply eroded and vanished.

Flared cheekbones and, in males, a ridge running along the top of the skull supported massive muscles.

Thijs Ettema at Uppsala University, Sweden, and his team discovered the new organisms when they analysed DNA extracted from underwater sediment near Loki's Castle, a region of hydrothermal vents along the Arctic mid-ocean ridge (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature14447).

The energy you add to a sheet as you crumple it, they have found, causes it to buckle along a series of sharp ridges.

Moreover, Wright has traveled the world to examine fissures along mid-ocean ridges, hoping to unravel the mysteries of hydrothermal vents and underwater volcanic eruptions.

In 2003, the team descended 2.4 kilometers in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research submarine ALVIN to retrieve samples from a pair of vents that lie along the volcanically active Pacific ridge.

In a field study, Diane Adams, a marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, and her colleagues measured the currents near the seafloor along the East Pacific Rise, a submarine ridge south - southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, that sports many hydrothermal vent systems.

By analyzing the speed of seismic waves generated by earthquakes, scientists have shown that temperature differences deep within Earth's mantle control the elevation and volcanic activity along mid-ocean ridges, the colossal mountain ranges that line the ocean floor.

During its two - year expedition there, Opportunity drove to the edges of promontories along Victoria's serrated edge, allowing it to look across to the next ridge and image the layers of sediment.

They also assessed the health of the plants along ridges and washes over a 1,000 - meter gradient.

Fetal neurosonography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have also showed diffuse calcification in the subcortical parenchyma and thalamic areas, ventriculomegaly, lissencephaly, and pachygyria (ie, smooth brains with reduced gyral ridges).6 Nevertheless, to our knowledge, a systematic follow - up of clinical and morphological features of these cases along with anatomic and pathological descriptions associated with congenital ZIKV infection has not been reported.

You will recall that hydrothermal vents are plumes of hot water that spew from rocks and cracks along the ocean floor, especially in regions of sea - floor spreading, such as oceanic ridges and rift valleys.

Biologists were surprised to discover that the ecosystems found on the ocean floor along these mid-ocean ridges, consisting of complex organisms like tube worms, clams, and crabs, were dependent for their food on thermophilic chemosynthetic bacteria, which produced organic compounds using the oxidation of inorganic molecules as an energy source, instead of sunlight.