Sentences with phrase «mountainous areas far»

In mountainous areas far from the sea, iodine in butter protects against goiter.

Iodine deficiency is common in mountainous areas far from the sea and places where there are frequent floods, because iodine is washed from the soil.

Not exact matches

The 4,312 landslides that happened within six weeks after the quake were far fewer than occurred after similar - magnitude quakes in other mountainous areas.

Iodine Source: Seaweed, milk from cows grazed on iodine - rich coastal soil Effects of deficiency: Blindness, mental impairment, goiter Who's at risk: People living in mountainous areas (the Rockies, the Alps, and the Andes), where iodine has been washed away by glaciation and flooding, or in lowland regions far from the oceans (Central Africa and Eastern Europe) Fortification options: Salt Estimated millions of people affected: 740

The familiar hemisphere facing Earth is covered by low, lava - filled plains (seen as the darker gray areas on the moon's «face»), whereas the far side, which is never visible from Earth, is a collection of rugged, mountainous highlands.

Further in the hinterland, up a winding hilly road about 11 kilometres northwest of Pangandaran in the mountainous area of Gunung Tiga near Cintaratu village, a lookout point known as Wonder Hill Jojogan enjoys sweeping views over the jungle covered hills above Pangandaran and out to sea.

The more vertical, mountainous landscape was a nice change from the tropical jungles of Far Cry 3, the missions never felt the same and the game improved on its predecessor in pretty much every area.

«Glaciers in higher colder mountainous regions will be slower to melt even as temps rise, the lower tundra areas will respond more quickly to such changes and this is shown by the quicker responses in tree line to the lesser warming periods like the MWP at ground level further north from him, and not just fossil remains but old farming settlements uncovered, and so on.»

They wanted to better understand how the climate of the Alaska Range has changed over the past several hundred years, because few weather station records of past climate in mountainous areas go back further than 1950.

I pick up stations from about 60 miles away but I do live in a mountainous area, so if you have no mountains I'm sure it will pick up stations from much farther.