It possessed its own peculiar orography, a mountainous system, making it a world in itself. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
In the lunar orography they have discerned some chains of mountains, which are chiefly distributed over the northern hemisphere. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
At this moment, to the left, lay extended one of the finest circles of lunar orography, one of the curiosities of this continent. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
It has a very complex orography whose determinants include a mountainous surface full of cliffs, ridges, hillsides and valleys, with a steep and highly dissected topography. From Wordnik.com. [Peruvian Yungas] Reference
Who could advance objections against conscientious observers, who at less than twenty-four miles distance had marked that curious mountain of Tycho, the strangest system of lunar orography?. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
Approaching now, through the high valleys, the central region of the mountain system of Corsica, this may be a proper place for a brief survey of the main features in its orography and geological structure. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
Examples include the representation of clouds and radiation; dry and moist convective processes; the formation of precipitation and its deposition on the surface as rain or snow; the interactions between the atmosphere and the land-surface orography (including the drag on the atmosphere caused by breaking gravity waves); and atmospheric boundary-layer processes and their interaction with the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Global coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models] Reference
But the observations of scientific travellers have recently thrown great light on the orography of. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
The area is characterised by its mountainous orography, and which has favoured cultural and genetic isolation. From Wordnik.com. [Emaxhealth] Reference
Its orography gives rise to the presence of numerous rivers and streams, all of which are upon the Atlantic watershed. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development] Reference
But the observations of scientific travellers have recently thrown great light on the orography of Portuguese America. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
Probably the best description of the topography and the orography of the island yet presented is that given by Mr. Robert T. Hill, of the United. From Wordnik.com. [Cuba, Old and New] Reference
England and wishes to know its essential characteristics, we shall do something more than hand him over maps and treatises on the orography and hydrography, the distribution of rainfall, of plants and animals, and the population. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty] Reference
The men, in particular, who lived and worked in the placer-mining regions about the base of the mountain, and were, perhaps, more familiar with the orography of the range than any surveyor or professed topographer, were openly incredulous. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America] Reference
Coahuila, in common with others of its neighbouring states, possesses some peculiar topographical conditions -- portions of it consisting of plains or valleys with no hydrographic outlet, as shown in the chapter dealing with the orography of the Republic. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development] Reference
It is important that the reader should be able to see, in his mind's eye, the situation of our camp at the head of the glacier, because to do so is to grasp the simple orography of this face of the mountain, and to understand the route of its ascent, probably the only route by which it can be ascended. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America] Reference
Indeed, a study of Mexico's orography and the delineation upon the map shows the series of parallel features formed by alternate mountain-folds and intervening basins -- the peninsula of Lower California; the Gulf of the same name; the Western Sierra Madre; the intersecting crests of the great plateau; the Eastern Sierra Madre, and the Gulf Coast. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development] Reference
It is only the general results of comparative orography and hydrography that belong to the science whose true limits I am desirous of determining, and not the special enumeration of the greatest elevations of our globe, of active volcanoes, of rivers, and the number of their tributaries, these details falliing rather within the domain of geography, properly so called. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
Over the past two millennia, the basic boundary conditions of Earth’s climate e.g., the continental arrangement, orography, Earth-orbital parameters, and the spatial extent of continental ice sheets have not changed significantly. From Wordnik.com. [More Unthreaded « Climate Audit] Reference
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