Sentences with phrase «high mountain ranges»

The surrounding scenery is very varied, ranging from semi-desert, scrub - covered hills, cut through by fertile irrigated valleys, to high mountain ranges whose lower slopes are clad in vast pine forests.

Nestled between the warm ocean waters and high mountain ranges, this is a sanctuary on which to reconnect with nature.

The geography also varies greatly, from the open plains and plateaus of the south, through to the north, with its impenetrably high mountain ranges; the capital city Vientiane acts as the dividing hub in the centre.

Over the last decade, rock avalanches and landslides have become more common in high mountain ranges, apparently coinciding with the increase in exceptionally warm periods.

Over the last decade, rock avalanches and landslides have become more common in high mountain ranges, apparently coinciding with the increase in exceptionally warm periods (see «Early signs»).

The animals are raised in the high mountain ranges above sea level in the Valnerina district.

Ethnographic descriptions and anthropological observations of the 19th century highlighted the fact that Malayarayans were different from other hill tribes of Travancore on many counts.3 The Travancore Census Report (1901) describes Malayarayans as «a class of hill tribes, who are little more civilised than the Mannans, and have fixed abodes in the slopes of high mountain ranges.

The company ended up partnering with a craft brewer in Salt Lake City called Uinta Brewing Co. — named after Utah's highest mountain range.

Ohio State glaciologist Lonnie Thompson has spent a career unlocking climate secrets frozen at the top of the world's highest mountain ranges

Rocks come alive in this personal odyssey to uncover the geologic forces that gave rise to the rugged Bolivian Andes, the second highest mountain range on Earth.

Lonnie Thompson, an earth scientist at The Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center who also is not part of the project and has been drilling ice cores on the world's highest mountain ranges for 38 years.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet sits below sea level today, but 34 million years ago, it sat on a much higher mountain range.

Alternative: Instead of exploring Marrakech, spend the day in the spectacular Atlas Mountains, the highest mountain range in North Africa.

South Africa's highest mountain range offers extensive hiking trails — anything from multi-day traverses through slackpacker trails to a myriad day hikes.

The Drakensberg is the highest mountain range in Southern Africa, rising 11 420 feet in height.

The Drakensberg Mountains are not only the largest but highest mountain range in Southern Africa stretching all the way along Kwazulu Natal's western boundary.

One of two World Heritage Sites in KZN, the 240 000 hectare park includes the highest mountain range in Southern Africa; the bulk of it designated game reserves, wetlands and wilderness areas.

The southern Drakensberg Mountains, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the highest mountain range in the country, are bedecked in thick snow every winter.

Whilst I absolutely love skiing and snowboarding up in the Sierra Nevada mountains, as a traveller it always seems almost criminal to visit this beautiful part of Spain and not explore beyond the snow - covered slopes of Europe's third highest mountain range.

The Sierra Nevada towers over southern Spain as the second highest mountain range in Europe.

This mighty compound of buildings, including the summer palace, Generalife, with its fountains and gardens, stands at the foot of Spain's highest mountain range, the Sierra Nevada, overlooking the city below and the fertile plain of Granada.

Join Turn 10 Studios on a journey across the world and behind the scenes as they capture the breath taking landscape of the Alps to design an unrivalled track in «Forza Motorsport 4» that captures the beauty and challenges of the highest mountain range in Europe.

It also predicts that the other 45,000 glaciers in the world's highest mountain range will be virtually gone by then, with drastic consequences for billions of people in Asia, whose life depends on water that originates in the Himalayas.

HANOVER, N.H. — December 19, 2017 — Snowfall on a major summit in North America's highest mountain range has more than doubled since the beginning of the Industrial Age, according to a study from Dartmouth College, the University of Maine, and the University of New Hampshire.

Not exact matches

Just scroll down the home page to see foggy rivers, faraway mountain ranges or even battered signs in all their high - resolution glory.

As in life, it is the never ending mountain ranges like the highest mountain in the world, Mauna Kea.

In Washington State, license plates depict Mount Rainier — the highest mountain in the Pacific Northwest's Cascade Range.

The formation of any major mountain range — the Himalayas, the Alps, the Andes, the Rockies, with sedimentary fossils at high alt!tude should be abundant evidence that the earth is much much older than 10,000 years.

It has three mountain ranges of great beauty, an endless seacoast that joins two oceans, red deserts and white deserts, deep forests and high savannahs, Irish - green vinyards and Utah - bleak scrub country.

Her previous residences have ranged from Munich, Athens, Paris, London, Madrid, and Tokyo to a shepherd's cottage in the Scottish Highlands, a German winery on the Mosel River, a mountain village in southern Spain, and a high - rise apartment building in Siberia.

After our picnic, we continued north on Route 108, which unbeknownst to me is the «notch road» and goes through the Smugglers Notch, which is a mountain pass, with an elevation of 2,170 feet (660 meters), separating Mount Mansfield, the highest peak in the Green Mountains, from Spruce Peak and the Sterling Range.

Spread across three mountain ranges, the Olympic venues stretch from Autrans, high in the Vercors to the west of Grenoble, to Alpe d'Huez, in the Grandes Rousses massif to the east, only 13 air miles apart but 60 by car

13,200 feet Groups living in mountain ranges at high elevations have evolved to survive the thin air there.

The geologic story to explain this low - lying basin in the midst of an otherwise mountainous terrain (the high Talkeetna Mountains to the north and portions of the Western Alaska Range to the west and south) has been difficult to tell.

Cassini close - ups found a 900 - mile mountain range, up to 12 miles high, encircling Iapetus.

«One general expectation is that tree ranges will gradually move toward higher elevations as mountain habitats get hotter,» said Michael Van Nuland, the project's lead researcher and a doctoral student in UT's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

When Lewis and Clark came here in 1805, they stared glumly at the «immense ranges of high mountains still to the west» and decided to alter the route of their expedition to the north.

They found that large landslides in the southern, lower elevation ranges of the Himalaya are more likely to increase flood risk than those in the high mountains further north.

«Birds that have adapted to high - altitude conditions from all these different mountain ranges have repeatedly evolved hemoglobin with elevated oxygen affinities,» Storz said.

The Alaska Range is an arc of mountains in southern Alaska home to Denali, North America's highest peak.

The highest mountain on Earth is Everest, 8,848 m, set in the world's most significant mountain range, the Himalaya.

Some of these regions, such as the southern Andes and certain isolated mountain ranges in the north, are also home to high numbers of endemic and threatened bird species, she finds.

The resulting high - resolution images and video, released yesterday and cobbled together using data gathered by the Voyager missions of the late 1970s and the Galileo probe that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, depict mountains that range up to 17 kilometers high, active volcanoes, dark lava fields, and bright plains smothered by sulfur deposits that have rained down from plumes that spew hundreds of kilometers high.

According to the study, the regions which reach the highest temperatures at shallower depths, and therefore, have greater geothermal potential and are prone to more detailed studies for their development are Galicia, western Castilla y León, the Sistema Central mountain range, Andalusia and Catalonia.

Enkelmann appreciates the challenge of collecting samples here because this range has the highest peaks of any coastal mountain range and is only 20 kilometers from the Pacific Ocean, but she points out that it is a tough area to study because of the big ice sheets.

The narrow mountain range is home to some of the world's most dramatic topography, including 20,320 - foot Denali (Mount McKinley), North America's highest mountain.

«From our perspective, the earthquake has motivated analyses of why the highest mountains in the central Alaska Range occur south of the Denali fault and the highest mountains in the eastern Alaska Range occur north of the fault — something that has puzzled us for years,» Fitzgerald adds.

An analysis of forest species in six French mountain ranges (the western Alps, northern Pyrenees, Massif Central, western Jura, Vosges and the Corsican range) shows that more than two thirds of them moved at least 60 feet (18.5 meters) higher on the mountainsides per decade during the 20th century.

The half - lives (the period in which radioactivity halves) of these atoms range up to tens of thousands of years, a feature that led U.S. government regulators to require that the planned high - level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada isolate spent fuel for over 10,000 years.

They range from steamy lowland jungles, swamps, and floodplains to cloud forests, alpine grasslands, and glaciers capping mountains more than 16,000 feet high.