Sentences with phrase «opposite side of the valley»

For instance, Ekström says, in several cases major landslides have fallen upon glaciers and then scooted nearly friction - free across several kilometers of ice — which tends to muffle seismic vibrations until the speeding material slams into the opposite side of the valley.

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Faso a Hudson Valley Republican, representing a district on the opposite side of the state.

Because the3school sits on a hillside that faces west, the wind whisks down the face of the mountain on the opposite side, across the valley floor, and right smack into it.

It is of course also home to the magnificent Alhambra — which rises up on the opposite side of the Darro Valley — as well as countless Teterías (tea shops) and tapas bars.

Since it is located on the opposite side of the Everglades, most visitors choose either the eastern side (Shark Valley and Ernest F. Coe) or the Gulf Coast.

In the summer of 1970, Philip Leider — then the editor of Artforum, the journal of record for American art of the moment — got into a car with two friends, the artists Joan Jonas and Richard Serra, and drove off to see a newly finished artwork: Michael Heizer's Double Negative, a pair of cuts in the rock of a Nevada mesa, directly facing each other on opposite sides of a steep valley.