Thus, then, it appears that the same laws determine always and everywhere the orographic distribution of plants.
Following the period of rhyolitic eruptions, orographic agencies were active in producing extensive faults or displacements, which in certain localities radically changed the relative positions of the rocks.
On these latter, and on the lines of the orographic resistance, are based intermediate lines of flow, which show where conditions are favorable to cooling and condensation.
In pre-historic geography we have had two papers presented to the Society during the past year, relating to the orographic features of the earth's surface in times past compared with the localities as we may see them to-day.
In this method one takes a chart showing current meteorological conditions, and the permanent orographic features of the continent; lines of equal density are also drawn for planes at several elevations above sea-level.
The feature has been noticed alike by nongeographers and geographers, and by geologists as well, that the arm which carries the greatest volume of water does not everywhere occupy the main orographic valley.
The outstanding orographic feature of the country is the terrace-formation of the land, which rises from sea-level by well-marked steps to the immense plateau which forms seven-eighths of South Africa.
Such displacements of necessity imply a differential movement of sections or blocks of the earth’s crust, the so-called orographic blocks, which are bounded by the joint planes and play individual rôles in the movement.
As the boundaries of orographic blocks, certain of the fractures are at such times the seats of especially heavy vibrations; they are the seismotectonic lines of the earthquake province.
The western or mountainous division is the wettest at all seasons, each orographic group forming a centre of heavy precipitation.
From an orographic point of view, Bohemia constitutes amongst the Austrian provinces a separate massif, bordered on three sides by mountain ranges: on the S.
The orographic features of the Pacific Mountain system trend parallel to the coast-line of the Gulf of Alaska, changing with this at the great bend beyond the N.
The Abyssinian highlands are thus a clearly marked orographic division.
There are picturesque bits of landscape in that orographic knot which the Russians have had to cut as Alexander cut the gordian knot that was worth something to the Macedonian conqueror of Asia.
The plain begins to undulate, for we are approaching the outer ramifications of the easternorographic system.
This orographic system, four hundred kilometres across, which remained for so many years an impassable barrier, has been surmounted by Russian tenacity.
This does not signify much if the loess was formed in a lake subject to orographic oscillations, or if, as I am coming to believe, it is a fluviatile deposit of an oscillating river like the Hoang-Ho on the great Chinese plain.
We do not, however, obtain a sufficiently clear view of the orographic influences until we take the provinces separately.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orographic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
