Lexicographical Neighbors of Piedmonts
Literary usage of Piedmonts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Goddard, Guibon (1828)
"The money that you parted with in that noble charity that was exercised in this
nation, and the just sense that you had of those poor piedmonts,• was ..."
2. Explorations in Turkestan, Expedition of 1904: Prehistoric Civilizations of by Raphael Pumpelly (1908)
"THE UPTILTED piedmonts OF NORTHWESTERN TARIM AS A KEY TO THE PAST. In northwestern
Tarim alluviation of the piedmont zone is nearly confined to that from ..."
3. Geology (field Geology: Petrography) by Hartley Travers Ferrar, George Thurland Prior (1907)
"These areas may be regarded as series of land-piedmonts. ... The evidence would
seem to suggest that piedmonts are rather relics of a former greater ..."
4. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"This paper focuses on the broad, gently sloping piedmonts between elevations of
approximately 950-1450 m which flank the mountains of southeastern Arizona ..."
5. The Voyage of the 'Discovery' by Robert Falcon Scott (1905)
"piedmonts.—Large areas of ice which lie at the foot of high land and which have
no obvious single source may be described as ' piedmonts. ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"... whether the sloping interment plains are the result of sheet- flood erosion,
or, as is still more lately proposed, the rock-floor of desert piedmonts is ..."
7. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1905)
"Several authors have suggested that the leveling influence of gravity is not only
manifest in the piecemeal carriage of rock fragments out to the piedmonts, ..."
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