lowland landscape

The lowland landscape was formed only during the last 10,000 years, following the end of the last ice age.

The characteristic feature of the lowlands landscape is the lack of lakes.

Together with circular and rectilinear stock watering ponds, they form distinctive elements of lowland landscapes.

Steep-sided wooded valleys link the upland and lowland landscapes.

The peaks if Ben Loyal, Queen of Scottish mountains, rise regally above a wild lowland landscape.

The Leland Trail travels through the lowland landscapes, dairy and arable farmland typical of south Somerset.

As for Paulus Potter's young bullock with sheep and, in the foreground, a frog, they are unmistakably at home in Lowland landscape.

This geology has given rise to a well-drained, sandy lowland landscape supporting a mosaic of oak-birch woodland, conifer plantations, open sandy heaths, and rough grazed pastures.

Therefore it is not surprising that the lowlands landscape has changed most, especially in arable areas, for farming in the lowlands has been subject to the most thoroughgoing technological changes.

Raft Cove contains features characteristic of the Nahwitti Lowland Landscape such as rounded hills, poorly drained areas, rugged coastline and western hemlock and western red cedar forests.

The lowland landscape through which the Trans-Peninsular Express ran resembled a vision of pre-postindustrial England, a bucolic dreamscape where the trains ran on time and the sun never set on the empire.

Fortunately, in parallel with the re-study of lowland landscapes, the Countryside Commission has also commissioned a similar study of upland landscapes in both a full (Sinclair, 1983) and abbreviated form (Allaby, 1983).

Author and poet Arne Garborg grew up in the traditional lowland landscape of Jæren, and in several of his works he describes the landscape and its inhabitants around the turn of the 19th century.

Dedham is frequently rated as containing some of England's most beautiful Lowland landscape, most particularly the Water Meadows of the River Stour, which passes along the northern boundary of the village forming the boundary between the counties of Essex and Suffolk.

Although underlain by much older Triassic age formations that protrude to form what would once have been islands-such as Athelney, Brent Knoll, Burrow Mump and Glastonbury Tor-the lowland landscape was formed only during the last 10,000 years, following the end of the last ice age.