Embedded within the monsoon trough, it was a broad depression.
Gradually the rut flattens out to a broad shallow depression like a thousand other valleys in the Sea.
Crossing a dry wash, they stopped in a broad, sandy depression, dominated by a giant, dead piñon tree.
On the screen, the pattern of dots had reached the far side of a broad, flat-bottomed depression that lay beyond the rise.
In broader depressions Malenfant could see cultivated gardens and grain fields.
The rock was bare here, a broad depression on which nothing seemed able to grow.
The fell is separated from Loadpot Hill by a broad depression just south east of the summit, the ground here being quite marshy.
Around the circular rim of the broad depression ran a lengthy inscription.
In the next instant the round door and the whole of the broad depression surrounding it disappeared as if by magic, vanishing down into the earth.
Yet plainly some- one had once built a large blaze, deliberately, here in this broad depression in the rock floor against the cliff.