Sentences with phrase «plateau at an elevation»

The city sits on a high plateau at an elevation of 4,475 feet.

The city sits on a high plateau at an elevation of 4,475 feet.

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More alarmingly, the researchers also detected large amounts of POPs in various components of the ecosystems such as soil, grass, trees and fish in the Himalayas and in the Tibetan plateau, especially at the highest elevations.

Because the vast plateau at such altitudes absorbs a huge amount of solar radiation, the atmospheric layer above it in summer is much warmer than air at similar elevations over lower land or the oceans.

At lower elevations, plateau dwellers simply incorporated a bit of barley into their millet - heavy diet, but the high - altitude farmers appear to have abandoned millet altogether and relied almost completely on the new, hardier grain, the team reports online today in Science.

But other genetic data suggests that at least one high - elevation gene appeared in Tibetans only between 2750 and 5500 years ago — more in line with the appearance of high - elevation agriculture on the plateau.

The 9,500 - acre island is a plateau at 500 feet in elevation, with two 800 - ft.

(The more well - known Vostok polar station is located on the same plateau at a similar elevation.)

According to the race's official website, «The 125 - km course begins and ends on a 4,200 - foot plateau, passes over three mountain summits and includes 17,000 feet of elevation change, as well as a major river crossing at the spectacular Hell's Gate canyon, where the Smoky and Sulphur rivers converge.»