flat-bottomed valley

They were in a narrow, flat-bottomed valley that curved away from the road.

Effectively the whole place was set in a shallow bowl of similar low mountains, making a flat-bottomed valley.

A kind of white mountain ridge, in fact, walling off their flat-bottomed valley on its east side.

Every time the river eventually breached the slide and drained the lake, leaving a flat-bottomed valley.

Davos is set in a high, broad, flat-bottomed valley, with its lifts and slopes either side.

In general, the area is having hilly to undulating topography with flat-bottomed valleys.

The landscape itself is a flat-bottomed valley (a river meanders through it) with jagged peaks visible on the far side.

In exchange I had a view over the wide, flat-bottomed valley, a view that dissolved into the fish-fin ridge on the far side.

About four miles (7 km) later is Kalalau Valley, a large, flat-bottomed valley almost a mile across.

Thus flat-bottomed valleys between ancient lava flows and glacial moraines are where most of the large geothermal areas are located.

Here is takes a meandering route through a broad, flat-bottomed valley between Castle Cary and Alhampton.

The Narmada Valley is an east-west flat-bottomed valley, or graben, that separates the two plateaus.

To the south-east of the plateau and escarpment, the department lies in the broad, flat-bottomed valley of the middle course of the Saône.

Most of the area takes the form of an elevated, gently rolling plateau, cut by numerous deep, steep-sided, flat-bottomed valleys of glacial origin.

Icebones found herself walking through a flat-bottomed valley so deep and sheer-walled that she was immersed in cold shadow, even though she could see a stripe of pinkish daylight sky far above her.

An alternative etymology would be from the common noun hwicce "ark, chest, locker", in reference to the appearance of the territory as a flat-bottomed valley bordered by the Cotswolds and the Malvern Hills.

The earliest form of the name of Stratton is Strætneat, an Anglo-Saxon form derived from Old Cornish "strad" and "neth", meaning the flat-bottomed valley of the river Neth.

Douglas angled down into the flat-bottomed valley and landed on the veranda before Serenit's lodge, set pleasantly in a forest of young pines and cedars, overlooking a shallow but fast-rushing stream that flowed where once the glacier had piled up hundreds of feet thick.

If the palace in question were the only one in the city, which it appeared to be from the manner in which it was referred to, then in all likelihood it lay in the center of the city, there being no high ground in this flat-bottomed valley.