Sentences with phrase «by coastal plains»

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

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.

Not exact matches

The study, led by the Berlin - based think - tank Global Climate Forum (GCF) and involving the University of Southampton, presents, for the first time, comprehensive global simulation results on future flood damages to buildings and infrastructure in coastal flood plains.

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

The northern third of the delta is lowering at the rate of about 4 to 8 mm per year due to compaction of strata underlying the plain, seismic motion, and the lack of sufficient new sediment to re-nourish the delta margin being eroded by Mediterranean coastal currents.

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.

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.

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.

Just miles from the sandy beaches of the offshore cays, coastal swamps give way to forested plains, then rolling hills and mountains cut by river gorges.

From Greymouth continue by coach along the bush clad, coastal plain.

The Costal region, which contains Lima (the capital), is a narrow coastal plain consisting of large tracts of desert broken by fertile valleys.

region, which contains Lima (the capital), is a narrow coastal plain consisting of large tracts of desert broken by fertile valleys.

COSTA, SIERRA, SELVA) The Costal region, which contains Lima (the capital), is a narrow coastal plain consisting of large tracts of desert broken by fertile valleys.

By this we mean the Great Escarpment, a gigantic green wall where the land plunges down gorges and ravines to the coastal plains.

The president and Congress should cut federal subsidies that keep the price of insurance in some high - risk zones (flood plains, coastal areas threatened by rising seas, and regions prone to wildfires) artificially — and disastrously — low.

It has coastal areas, mountain areas, plains, deserts etc, and is not dominated by one particular climatic zone, or by one particular weather pattern, or one particular oceanic current.

A Global Climate Model (GCM) can provide reliable prediction information on scales of around 1000 by 1000 km covering what could be a vastly differing landscape (from very mountainous to flat coastal plains for example) with greatly varying potential for floods, droughts or other extreme events.

For example, restricting development of land in flood plains and in coastal locations affected by hurricane storm surge is an effective adaptation strategy regardless of how climate changes.

Global climate models (ESMs or GCMs) can provide climate information on scales of around 1000 by 1000 km (with grid resolution of 100's of km) covering what could be a vastly differing landscape (from very mountainous to flat coastal plains for example) with greatly varying potential for floods, droughts or other extreme events.

The impacts of climate change and sea level rise tend to be intensified by direct anthropogenic modifications (e.g. river control structures, coastal embankments, and upstream reservoirs) on the delta plain.

Now a new study by a group of geologists from the University of Vermont and the U.S. Geological Survey have confirmed that hypothesis through research using extensive drilling in the coastal plain of Maryland.

«It is unlikely that coastal cities or low - lying areas such as Bangladesh, European lowlands, and large portions of the United States eastern coast and northeast China plains could be protected against such large sea level rise,» states a report co-authored by Hansen, titled «Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations that 2 °C Global Warming is Highly Dangerous».

Due to its location between bodies of water and the low coastal plains, Miami is the most likely of any major city to get hit by a hurricane.