Sentences with phrase «coastal plain lies»

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

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.

Towns villages and critical infrastructures located on low - lying coastal zones or on flood plains are exposed to surge and flooding.

People living in low - lying coastal zones and flood plains are probably most at risk from climate change impacts in Asia.

«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».