Sentences with phrase «formed deep valleys»

Glaciers and rivers formed deep valleys that lifted the peaks to form the amazing landscape that is compared with the Alps in Europe.

The terrain is fairly jagged, with many gullies and streams fed by glaciers which eventually pour into the Urubamba river, which crosses the area forming a deep valley which runs through the granite base of Vilcabamba for more than 40 km through a variety of eco-systems.

Not exact matches

Vayable co-founder Jamie Wong opens up about how leaving the Valley's «techno - chamber» helped her form deeper connections with customers.

Irwin points to some deltas and valley networks that lie well below the team's favored sea level, a physical impossibility if an ocean that deep existed at the time they formed.

Rough calculations show if you drill about a dozen mine shafts as deep as possible into the thing, and plunk megaton nuclear bombs down there, and then fire them off simultaneously, you'll get a repeat of the Long Valley Caldera explosion of about 800,000 years ago — which coated everything east of it with miles of ash and injected a giant aerosol cloud into the stratosphere — the ash layer alone formed a triangle stretching from the caldera to Louisiana to North Dakota, including all of Arizona and most of Idaho and everything in between — I bet that would have a cooling factor of at least -30 W / m ^ 2 — and you could go and do the Yellowstone Plateau at the same time — geoengineering at its finest.