Lexicographical Neighbors of Benchlands
Literary usage of Benchlands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"... feed with little discrimination and are, besides, the stock most commonly kept
on the high benchlands and foothills where the plant is most abundant. ..."
2. Dams and Rivers: Primer on the Downstream Effects of Dams by Michael Collier, Robert H. Webb, John C. Schmidt (1998)
"Canals proliferated out from the river onto benchlands above the flood plain like
cracks radiating through shattered glass. By 1885. more water had been ..."
3. Soils: Their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1921)
"... quite frequently locally represented in the arid, in lowlands and on high
mountains; while moderately moist benchlands represent the semi-arid regime. ..."
4. Water Resources, Present and Future Uses by Frederick Haynes Newell (1920)
"In many places drainage works are employed as an adjunct to the irrigation canal.
On benchlands or gently sloping hill- ..."
5. Soils--their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1906)
"The same is generally true of the benchlands ; the irrigator levels, slopes or
terraces his land for irrigation with no thought of discrimination between ..."
6. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1900)
"... but with linear almost filiform leaves which are generally spreading. Dry hills
and benchlands, at an altitude of 1500-2000 m. ..."
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