Landforms

Shutterstock China's newest Unesco site is China Danxia, the name for landforms that include steep red cliffs and dramatic natural pillars and waterfalls in the southern part of the country. ❋ Unknown (2011)

(D) identify and locate major physical and human geographic features such as landforms, water bodies, and urban centers of various places and regions; ❋ Unknown (2010)

I absolutely 100% agree that local landforms and beach profile can make a huge difference to how the wave performs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dropped like a stone tablet into the heart of the Holy Land, the Dead Sea is a long, narrow lake created two million years ago when rising landforms cut it off from the Mediterranean. ❋ Gerard Helferich (2011)

Life is lived at a slower pace here and the insight the island offers into nature and traditional ways of life is not to be missed.8 Natural wondersSai Kung is known as Hong Kong's back garden, consisting of a vast area of exotic landforms, parkland and marine habitat. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There was a trembling in the air as the unnamed colors and landforms took on definition, a clarity of outline and extent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Such complex looking landforms in the Cydonia region are thought to be the result of landslides and erosion of the ancient Martian crust.antwrp. gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060926. html ❋ Unknown (2009)

Spanish is similar to English in that landforms are named not only according to their shape or morphology, but also according to their relative location. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But it paid off, she says, noting that today they "amaze their friends" with what they know about geography and landforms. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And we first detected these landforms, these lobate scarps, in those images, again, 40 years ago or so. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The other is the effect of soot from the millions of wood and coal-burning stoves in India and China and the combustion of diesel fuel and coal, which is turning the surface of the Himalayan glaciers into heat-absorbing, rather than heat-reflecting, landforms, only further accelerating the warming process. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It took a while to make out, the angles so grave, the visual information so sparse: the men were, viewed from the top down, just glowing jiggles of light against the multihued dark of the landforms beneath them, the goats faster moving, longer. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2010)

It drifted, this way and that, seeming to float without a care in the world as before it the panorama of the ragged landforms of Zabul fled, mostly dust broken by rocks and ridges, except the part where the rocks and ridges were broken by dust. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2010)

Scientists have identified 14 landforms called lobate scarps scattered over the surface of the moon, explained Thomas R. Watters of the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. ❋ Unknown (2010)

  Even more amazing are some of the photographs taken by NASA showing the complex interplay of light and landforms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His main research focus is on aeolian geomorphology, the movement of sediment by the wind and the resulting landforms produced. ❋ Unknown (2010)