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4 days ago · To identify a river valley on a topographic map, look for V-shaped contour lines that point uphill. These lines indicate the presence of a valley formed by a river’s erosion. River valleys typically have very steep sides and a flat divot at the bottom, resembling the letter ‘V’.
- Roy Johns
4 days ago · The fertile centre of its basin in the Île-de-France was the cradle of the French monarchy and the nucleus of the expanding nation-state and is still its heartland and metropolitan region. Physical features. Physiography.
3 days ago · Why Mount Rainier is the U.S. volcano keeping scientists up at night. Mount Rainier, a snowcapped volcano, looms over Puyallup Valley near Orting, Washington. The prospect of a lahar — a swiftly ...
1 day ago · Slovenia is the third most-forested country in Europe, [121] with 58.3% of the territory covered by forests. [122] The forests are an important natural resource, and logging is kept to a minimum. [123] In the interior of the country are typical Central European forests, predominantly oak and beech.
2 days ago · After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, many Cornish Britons settled in western Armorica to escape the Saxons and the region started to be called Britannia, although this name only replaced Armorica in the sixth century or perhaps by the end of the fifth.
3 days ago · New Spain was not the original name for Mexico. Instead, it was the name given to all Spanish colonial possessions in North America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. Mexico was a jurisdiction under the command of New Spain during that period.
1 day ago · In South America, the Portuguese conquered most of the Rio Negro valley, and repelled a Spanish attack on Mato Grosso (in the Guaporé River). [108] [109] Between September 1762 and April 1763, Spanish forces led by don Pedro Antonio de Cevallos , Governor of Buenos Aires (and later first Viceroy of the Rio de la Plata ) undertook a campaign against the Portuguese in the Banda Oriental , now ...
