Sentences with phrase «from broad valleys»

The Magdalena River, which runs northward, changes from broad valleys to steeper relief gorges as it crosses the tear, suggesting to researchers that the tear may propagate to the surface.

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That proposal met a broad backlash from an unlikely coalition that included political opposites like Senator John Ashcroft, the Missouri Republican, and Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat, as well as the televangelist Pat Robertson, Silicon Valley executives and the American Civil Liberties Union.

We have members and mentors from a broad set of companies in Silicon Valley and throughout the US and Latin America.

From a score or more of cliffs, bluffs and steeps, there open out broad vistas of dozens of rich coves and valleys worthy of Dan» l Boone's first vision of Kaintuck.

Well, you have the Pamirs, which are broad valleys flanked by mountains extending southward from Russia to Pakistan's borders.

A photo taken from the air shows the dark green of forests diminish along the slope to the lowlands; the valley has clusters of deep forest green among the broad, pale, geometric shapes of cultivated land.

The Coalition for School Reform's District 6 (East San Fernando Valley) runoff election coffers have been replenished thanks to big donations received from Los Angeles philanthropist Eli Broad and StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee's education advocacy group, among others.

From the icy, windswept summit way above the tree line, the broad blacktop curves down to the Ziller Valley, where my mother's family still owns a couple of guest houses, a trout farm, and a small farm close to the bottom of the hill.

It is an ecological Aladdin's Cave of natural science, from its towering ancient mountains to its broad river valleys and... read more

On this walk, you see everything from open woodland and broad river valleys to deep gorges and spectacular waterfalls.

DBy I think the biggest challenge is not to do a survey, which implies a necessarily broad census - taking that captures peaks not valleys (and conjures the featureless roundups of midcentury big American museum shows — Recent Painting and Sculpture from France, Italy and Germany for instance).

I do love local food, and don't get into a knot over whether it's more carbon - intensive than something shipped from a factory - style farm, mainly because I value the broader set of environmental qualities that are sustained when a landscape, whether my yard or my valley, is productive and interactive.

This project brings together senior scientists from the Desert Research Institute, the University of Colorado, the University of Southern Mississippi, the University Libre de Brussels, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks to tackle these problems as a team to create transformative new approaches to analyzing ice cores from polythermal valley glaciers to create unique records of value to a broad - base of scientists and policy makers.