Sentences with phrase «flat land»

Even when corn is grown using the latest «no till» methods on flat land, there is some soil erosion.

As you are about to exit mountains into flat land (just after a bunch of ugly billboards) there is a restaurant on your right (usually with many trucks out front).

This isn't fatal in parts of the country where flat land means low development costs.

The photos that most people see are the < 500 ft tall towers on flat land and will rarely show them in the mountains.

Carl Sagan's example of flat land on COSMOS could be used to explain miracles, UFOs, etc etc..

The name Kalispell is a Salish language word meaning «flat land above the lake.»

I get 34 mpg through the mountains and got as high as 37mpg on flat land with cruise.

It's got lots of flat land at high elevations bathed in abundant sunshine.

By transposing the findings from flat land to mountainous terrain, a team of researchers from across Switzerland has found a new way to explain the observation that biodiversity in mountainous terrain tends to peak at mid-altitudes.

For many schools, their fields are on flat land next to rivers, just the areas that were hit the hardest by the flooding in August.

However, Hu explained, even seemingly flat land, like in Iowa, can make an appreciable impact on wind energy production.

Instead of vast flat lands, we have rocky hills and deep canyons, the red mesas of Monument Valley and the snow - capped mountains of the Rockies.

Instead of the bright fluorescent lights, beaches and nightclubs, the «River of Grass» is rural with miles of flat land dissected by lonely highways.

It is a dry flat land and has remains of ancient ruined cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa that remind one of the golden times of Sinhalese civilization.

So if ancient temple ruins are your thing, this province — an expanse of mostly flat land, covered in rice fields and dotted with wonderfully picturesque villages — begs to be explored.

Life in Amed Bali Boutique Hotel & Villas was built with a blend of Balinese and modern design, on flat land right on the beach, elegant decor, fine bedding and furnishings, natural stone bathrooms, views of the ocean, swimming pool and lush fragrant gardens.

Belize has a varied geography, with rolling hills and higher elevations in the southwest and west to lush agricultural flat lands in the north and southeast.

The inclusion of Hardcore mode is fantastic, while Skate already is more realistic, Hardcore mode takes it to a new level and grinds have to be lined up perfectly as well as the fact that you can not ollie as high or land stupidly big leaps onto flat land.

Born in New York City, Vivian Polak grew up on Long Island and the coast of Belgium — two places where the combination of water and flat land make for extraordinary light.

It also draws inspiration from the Midwestern flat lands of her childhood.

A Landsat 7 satellite image shows the tongue of the Malaspina Glacier, the largest glacier in Alaska and the largest piedmont glacier — a glacier that ends on flat land rather than in the ocean — in the world.

With the Tri-Cities offering more than just flat land and terrain, there are hilltop homes with breathtaking views spanning as far and wide as your eye can see.

The name Kalispell is a Salish language word meaning «flat land above the lake.»

it towers above the city - which lays on flat land - at more than 3000ft.

He also said that it will be built in Texas, where there is presumably plenty of flat land to build the test track.

For starters, Fort McMurray features complex, hilly terrain, where the fire can spread much faster than on flat land.

The coal industry says it is providing the flat land necessary for further economic development, but it is questionable whether the sites will ever be inhabitable at all.

Virtually every sizable vacant site... was occupied, and when there was no flat land remaining, [people] moved up to the hillsides and colonized the ravines and slopes which were too steep for normal development.

Texas vineyards impacted by a month of rain: The flat lands of coastal Texas took a pounding with daily rains, cool temperatures and cloudy days for almost the entire month of May.

Yet the Netherlands — the home of legal weed, Total Football and a loads and loads of flat land — has produced surprisingly few players who have gone on to star for Manchester United.

Except for a flat land everything needed to be assembled, mulch moved, concrete mixed, shrubs planted and benches painted.

A woman's ankle can rotate through a much greater arc, one biologist has suggested, because our early female ancestors had to stretch from one branch to another while foraging in the trees and bushes, whereas heavier - bodied males tended to stick to flat land.

On 11 acres of South Carolina piedmont, a gentle slope that leads from the base of a mountain to flat land, former high school biology teacher Bill Hilton Jr., 62, runs one of the most active bird - banding centers in the Southeast.

The dry air of the Atacama Desert and the flat land and high mountains offer the perfect place for building these giant telescopes.

For the next 2 weeks home was a narrow valley on a clear stream, with flat land for our dozen tents and the large dining tent.

A terrace is the flat landing at the bottom; the stair steps have vertical edges from which calcite grows out, eventually turning into terraces too.

I'm also from the Midwest and am definitely partial to flat land.

Our last house — which due to the stinky real estate market, we still own — in Atlanta was hilly and everyone used mulch but here (in the flat land of SC) no one does.

TX has a warm weather and flat land.

For the graphics, it has that very MMO aspect... like guys always running in a flat land, which makes it difficult to judge with so few elements.

We no longer build shining cities of learning on hills — by hand, with sweat, toil and tears; we build big - box stores on flat land and call them schools.