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    A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which typically contains a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over a very long period. Some valleys are formed through erosion by glacial ice.

  2. A valley is a type of landform which usually features as lowland between two higher landforms (which may be mountains or hills). Usually, valleys contain a stream or river flowing along the valley floor. Significant proportions of valleys are connected to other valleys downstream, which ultimately lead down to the coast.

  3. Jun 10, 2024 · valley, elongate depression of the Earth’s surface. Valleys are most commonly drained by rivers and may occur in a relatively flat plain or between ranges of hills or mountains. Those valleys produced by tectonic action are called rift valleys.

  4. an area of low land between hills or mountains, often with a river running through it: the Nile Valley. the Thames/Hudson valley. There was snow on the hill tops but not in the valley. Fewer examples. The house occupies a commanding position at the top of the valley.

  5. A valley is a lower part in the land that sits between two higher parts which might be hill s or mountains. Valleys often start as a downward fold between two upward folds in the surface of the Earth, and sometimes as a rift valley.

  6. Valleys are depressed areas of land–scoured and washed out by the conspiring forces of gravity, water, and ice. Some hang; others are hollow. They all take the form of a "U" or "V." Rivers and ...

  7. The meaning of VALLEY is an elongate depression of the earth's surface usually between ranges of hills or mountains. How to use valley in a sentence.

  8. Jun 10, 2024 · Valley development with time can be conceived of as a functional relationship, as follows: where v is the valley morphology, c is the climate, r is relief factors including slope, l is lithology and rock structure, p is the type of process operating (surface runoff or spring sapping), and t is time. Valley morphology can be described in ...

  9. valley. noun. /ˈvæli/. /ˈvæli/. an area of low land between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it; the land that a river flows through. in a valley In the valley below cows were grazing peacefully. the fertile soils of river valleys. A stream runs the length of the valley floor.

  10. Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, volcanic region, southern Alaska, U.S., 265 miles (425 km) southwest of Anchorage. The valley was created in 1912 by the eruption of the Novarupta and Mount Katmai volcanoes.

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