Sentences with phrase «narrow ridges at»

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In those moments I am willing even to indulge his somewhat romanticized view of himself: a figure in the twilight, at the end of a long journey through a large valley and into wooded hills, perhaps pausing on a low ridge that affords him a last narrow glimpse of the paths he has followed, watching the evening descending over the mountains and down toward darkening lakes and fields, trying to fix in memory the shape of a world soon to be lost in night.

The animal's lower jaw, which hangs under the ridge like an evolutionary afterthought, is even narrower — a flimsy structure only about three feet across at its widest point on a fully grown whale and studded with four - inch teeth.

There's plenty of suspension travel from the MacPherson struts in front and the control arms at the rear, and body control is pretty good, even on the narrow, winding roads to the top of the ridge along the San Francisco Peninsula where the redwoods are.

Situated just southeast of island # 3, Shark Fin reef is a narrow ridge of granite which is partially exposed at low tide.

Caverns, small tunnels and deep, vertically walled, narrow canyons contrast with the well lit, clear waters at the top of the coral ridges.

The slow diffusion equatorward of the the NA is not that slow, and seems to happen at narrow localized spots near topographic features, mid ocean ridges, continental margins, islands etc, due to tidal internal wave breaking and other related mechanisms which remain unclear.