In contrast to Canterbury, where the Northwest winds blow across the plains without interruption, in Otago the block mountains impede and dilute the effects of the Nor'wester.
22.
The average direction is N 21?E . In the islands and southern Greece a fault-block mountain orogeny prevails due to a double set of crustal movements.
23.
Mount Orjen is a block mountain lifted up as a horst and thus towering above the lowered Bay of Kotor and the high karst plateaux surrounding the Mount Orjen horst.
24.
Geologically, it is a tilted fault-block mountain, higher to the south than north, and is the oldest and most important example of the paleo-metamorphic system representative of the Cambrian Period in eastern China.
25.
The "'Metacomet Ridge "'of southern New England, United States, is a narrow and steep fault-block mountain ridge known for its extensive cliff faces, scenic vistas, microclimate ecosystems, and communities of plants considered rare or endangered.
26.
Non-karstic landforms includes three types : The middle and low dome-block mountains developed in intrusive magmatic massifs; The middle denudation-structural mountain belts developed in terrigenous rocks of Cretaceous age; and The low block-denudational mountain belts developed in other terrigenous rocks.
27.
This hot spot was under the Craters of the Moon area some 10 to 11 million years ago but'moved'as the North American Plate migrated southwestward . } } Pressure from the hot spot heaves the land surface up, creating fault-block mountains.
28.
The Apennine mountains, which rise to a height of nearly & mdash; farther above the mare plain than the Himalayan front above the Indian and Nepalese plains & mdash; are hypothesized to be fault-block mountains displaced upward and segmented by the impact that formed Mare Imbrium.
29.
Lifted type block mountains have two steep sides exposing both sides scarps, leading to the horst and graben terrain seen in northern Europe, including the Upper Rhine valley, a graben between two horsts, the Vosges mountains ( in France ) and Black Forest ( in Germany ).
30.
An erosion surface on the " Vishnu Basement Rocks " is covered by sedimentary rocks and basalt flows, and these rocks formed in the interval from about 1250 to 750 million years ago : in turn, they were uplifted and split into a range of fault-block mountains.
How to say block mountain in Hindi and what is the meaning of block mountain in Hindi? block mountain Hindi meaning, translation, pronunciation, synonyms and example sentences are provided by Hindlish.com.
