benchland

They reached the level of the benchland to see disaster swooping down upon them like a race-horse.

Scattered along the valley and benchland were a few ranches and homesteads.

I just caught him with the glasses by accident as I swung them over the edge of the benchland to get the trail focused.

Its air currents butt against the ridge, plunge downward over the benchland and circulate back across the plain.

The refuge consists of bottomland and adjacent benchland.

A third soil type, found close to the river, is predominately alluvial and makes up the benchland regions of the river.

Creston is built on rolling benchland immediately to the east of the Kootenay River floodplain.

Wilmer is situated on benchland overlooking the Rocky Mtn Trench.

By the 1800s homesteaders on the Oregon benchland were grazing sheep, cattle, and horses throughout the valley and canyons.

Eventually three canals were built to extend water from the nearby Jordan River to the benchland areas, providing irrigation for agricultural uses to the larger area.

She cuddled the bird against her cheek, and started back across the wide point of the benchland to where the trail led down the bluff to the house.

Beyond the spires, the city of Waterdeep stretched across the benchland like a magnificent diorama, complete with smoking chimneys and fluttering flags.

Some day, it was predicted, the benchland would be cut into squares and farmed,--some day when the government brought to reality a long-talked-of irrigation project.

He therefore left the trail and rode up on a ridge from which he could overlook the whole benchland, with the exception of certain gulches that cut through.

These are separated by a benchland at mid-elevation between the river and canyon rim between Saddle Creek and Dug Bar.

Some of the benchland soils are brown and of good tilth; others are gray, deficient in organic matter, and have rather heavy calcareous subsoils.

The Fraser Canyon in this area is a mix of sand and rock gorge flanked by benchland formed from ancient lake bottoms, with the benchlands hundreds of feet above the river.

The higher plateau that held the old cabin stuck out into the benchland like a steep-sided U; she was surprised at the amount the clan had gotten done there while she was away.

That night the whole Happy Family, just returned from the Badlands and warned by Chip at dusk that the Kid was missing, hunted the coulees that bordered the benchland.

She picked up her hat and gloves, and went out with blurred eyes, and began to climb the bluff above the little spring, where a faint, little-used trail led to the benchland above.

Chalone Vineyard is located in the Chalone AVA south of San Francisco, California, United States, on an unusual geological formation called the Gavilan benchland.

Between there and the mouth of the Chilcotin River there are only rough ranching roads, and the terrain is a mix of canyon depths flanked by arid benchland and high plateau.

Beyond the benchland to the east are the Purcell Mountains; their steep west-facing scarps are mistakenly called the Skimmerhorns, while the Selkirk Mountains rise west of the floodplain.

For 45 km NW from there, the range is rocky and lightly forested with lodgepole pine, breaking into high benchlands and large creek basins draining through benchland country via small canyons.

In geomorphology, geography and geology, a bench or benchland is a long, relatively narrow strip of relatively level or gently inclined land that is bounded by distinctly steeper slopes above and below it.