coastal plain
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcoastalandplain
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coastal
adjective
uk/ˈkəʊ.stəl/us/ˈkoʊ.stəl/
positioned on, or relating to ...
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plain
noun
uk/pleɪn/us/pleɪn/
a large area of ...
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(Definition ofcoastalandplainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The valley councils fear that their economic efforts will be secondary to those on thecoastalplain.
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Hundreds of farmsteads cover the hills and dales, as well as the rural parts of thecoastalplain.
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Is that redevelopment going to take place on thecoastalplainor at the mouth of the valleys, or up the valleys where there are centres of population?
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Proposals for the construction of approximately 150 miles of a new road linking thecoastalplainwith the interior include several bridges of 200 foot span.
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Thecoastalplainis widest in the south and narrows to the north.
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However, the south-easterncoastalplain, anomalously, is drier to the south of the 1000 mm isohyet (fig. 1).
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The mountains rise steeply from the eastern coast and the majority of the population and associated development are located on the westerncoastalplain.
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Thecoastalplainis mainly coastal thicket; a small area in the south-easterncoastalplainis tropical steppe.
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It gathers momentum as it runs towards thecoastalplain, accumulating water from the seasonal springs and streams, which sparkle in an otherwise arid landscape.
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The source area of the continental sediments cor responds to the mountains and hills located in the vicinity of thecoastalplain.
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The reason for this exceptional sensitivity to global climate seems to be its watercourse, which includes vast swamps in thecoastalplain.
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In thecoastalplainregion, tropical cyclones, usually characterized by strong high winds, little sunshine, reduced temperature and heavy rainfall are destructive to annual rice.
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Thecoastalplainregion had highly productive soils.
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Including this location in thecoastalplainmodel probably increased the amount of variability and may have resulted in decreased performance of the coastal plain regional model.
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Tillage intensity effects on chemical indicators of soil quality in twocoastalplainsoils.
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Retention and cationexchange properties of organic matter incoastalplainsoils.
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Microbial life in the terrestrial subsurface of southeasterncoastalplainsediments.
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On thecoastalplainand in the better-watered areas of the interior, hunters and herders would have been in direct competition for occupancy of land and access to water.
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However, the damage to rice may be decreased by hillsides in mountainous regions, thus, the models in mountainous regions predicted yield more accurately than models in thecoastalplain.
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