drowned valley造句

• Here the drowned valleys of the Marlborough Sounds make for a convoluted and attractive coastline.
• The lofty Al Hajar Mountains and the drowned valleys of Musandam are dramatic reminders of this.
• Geographically, Southampton Water is classified as a ria, or drowned valley, of the English Channel.
• Since they are in the seaward section of the drowned valley system they receive sediment from both marine and fluvial sources.
• "' Tory Channel / Kura Te Au "'is one of the drowned valleys that form the Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand.
• Roatan is marked by a number of salt-water lagoons or drowned valleys, which form a system of interior waterways on the south side ."
• The coastal line of Dongyin is maternally related to that in Fujian, drowned valleys ( 7宑p _ wm?\ ) of Submergent Coastlines ( 坙4lwm?\ ).
• The ABC programme " A Drowned Valley " by ABC Open producer Sean O'Brien documents former residents'memories of living in the valley prior to its inundation.
• The harbour is a drowned valley ( ria ) formed at the end of the last ice age and is the estuary of several rivers, the largest being the Frome.
• The port is located ten miles ( ) inland, between the confluence of the rivers Itchen and the head of the mile-wide drowned valley known as Southampton Water.
• The "'Hawkesbury River "', is a semi mature tide dominated drowned valley estuary located to the west and north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• The drowned valley is an arm of Pelorus Sound, it runs for from the northeast to southwest, joining Pelorus Sound a quarter of the way down the latter's path to the Cook Strait.
• The south coast, dubbed the riviera, is somewhat more sheltered and there are several broad estuaries formed by drowned valleys or rias that offer safe anchorages to seafarers, such as at Falmouth and Fowey.
• The "'Georges River "', formerly known as Tucoerah River, is an intermediate tide dominated drowned valley estuary, located to the south and west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• In the Second Presidential Address to members of the Geological Society in 1953, Lees described his vision of the wonders of geology : " I have sat in contemplation on the Kerry rocks of south-western Ireland and seen the great Hercynian ranges warping downwards through a magnificent fiord phase of drowned valleys into the water of the Atlantic; I have observed with awe and wonder the inspiring view of the Armorican ranges confidently striking into the turbulent Atlantic at the Point du Raz, Finist鑢e, and I have seen the great Atlas Mountains with their component subdivisions heading strongly seaward; I have seen the Arabian and Indian coasts, made a complete circuit of Australia and traversed the Pacific; I have seen the Californian edge of the American continent and the great drowned valleys of the British Columbian coasts; I have seen the bevelled stumps of the one time mountains of Nova Scotia striking freely into the Atlantic and I have traversed the eastern seaboard of the United States to the point of Florida and the Antilles loop to Trinidad and into Venezuela ."
• In the Second Presidential Address to members of the Geological Society in 1953, Lees described his vision of the wonders of geology : " I have sat in contemplation on the Kerry rocks of south-western Ireland and seen the great Hercynian ranges warping downwards through a magnificent fiord phase of drowned valleys into the water of the Atlantic; I have observed with awe and wonder the inspiring view of the Armorican ranges confidently striking into the turbulent Atlantic at the Point du Raz, Finist鑢e, and I have seen the great Atlas Mountains with their component subdivisions heading strongly seaward; I have seen the Arabian and Indian coasts, made a complete circuit of Australia and traversed the Pacific; I have seen the Californian edge of the American continent and the great drowned valleys of the British Columbian coasts; I have seen the bevelled stumps of the one time mountains of Nova Scotia striking freely into the Atlantic and I have traversed the eastern seaboard of the United States to the point of Florida and the Antilles loop to Trinidad and into Venezuela ."