At any rate the Khingan, separating the Mongolian plateau from the much lower plains of the Sungari and the Nonni, is one of the most important orographical dividing-lines in Asia.
As a border ridge of the Mongolian plateau, it possesses very great orographical importance, in that it is an important climatic boundary, and constitutes the western limits of the Manchurian flora.
This parting is of little orographical relief, but it would conduct the frontier almost in a straight line to the serried ridges of the southern peripheral zone on the south of Lake Van.
The outer Iranian arc effects a junction with the Tauric ranges along two parallel but fairly distinct orographical lines.
Between the northern and southern zones of peripheral mountains several distinct but minor members of the orographical system we have been examining furrow the surface of the tableland.
Of these the inner line crosses over from the Zagros to the Ararat system, and assumes commanding orographical importance in the western arm of that system, known as the Aghri or Shatin Dagh.
Some remarks on the orographical disposition of the moon must conclude the description of its continents, chains of mountains, isolated mountains, amphitheatres, and watercourses.
No air, the decomposing influence of which modifies orographical profiles.
The orographical characteristics of the Caucasus are described in detail under that heading.
But to use such terms for what is not only an independent, but also an older, orographical formation than the Caucasus tends to perpetuate confusion in geographical nomenclature.
As we cross the coast-zone from Vera Cruz we are enabled to observe something of the orographical structure of the country and the agencies that have been at work.
Within this range are two great volcanic uplifts, two beautiful mountain peaks, crowned with perpetual snow--the culminating orographical features of the Sierras, and the highest points in Mexico.
Although these several ranges, or systems of ranges, differ considerably in theirorographical characteristics, the following description will apply generally to the entire region from the Astin-tagh southwards to the Arka-tagh.
If the orographical features of the land everywhere attest the potency of plutonic agents, they no less forcibly assure us that the inequalities of surface resulting from such movements are universally modified by denudation and sedimentation.
A geological classification or grouping of the mountains into linear belts cannot therefore be shown upon any ordinary orographical map.
From this bald and meagre outline of the general geological structure of Europe, we may gather that the leading orographical features of our Continent began to be developed at a very early period.
With every day's march the orographical configuration becomes clearer, and soon the leading features of the blank space will be nearly all ascertained.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orographical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
