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A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains and typically containing a river or stream running from one end to the other.
The Valley of Mexico attracted prehistoric humans because the region was rich in biodiversity and had the capacity of growing substantial crops. [4] Generally speaking, humans in Mesoamerica, including central Mexico, began to leave a hunter-gatherer existence in favor of agriculture sometime between the end of the Pleistocene epoch and the beginning of the Holocene. [11]
The "Combe de Dreveneuse" in Valais, Switzerland. A combe (/ k uː m /; also spelled coombe or coomb and, in place names, comb) can refer either to a steep, narrow valley, or to a small valley or large hollow on the side of a hill; [1] [2] in any case, it is often understood simply to mean a small valley through which a watercourse does not run.
The entire valley is now flooded under an average 300 ft (91 m) of water behind the dam, although it occasionally reemerges in droughts, as it did in 1955, 1977, and 1991. [6] [7] Upstream from the valley lies the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, while the smaller Poopenaut Valley is directly downstream from O'Shaughnessy Dam. The Hetch Hetchy ...
A valley shoulder appears at the place where the tributary flowed into the river before the glacial period. The side valley loses its height and develops into a hanging valley. In permeable rock like limestone) a side-valley becomes a gorge. In granite or other crystalline areas a waterfall may result.
Owens Valley (Mono: Payahǖǖnadǖ, meaning "place of flowing water") is an arid valley of the Owens River in eastern California in the United States. It is located to the east of the Sierra Nevada , west of the White Mountains and Inyo Mountains , and is split between the Great Basin Desert and the Mojave Desert . [ 2 ]
Alvin Valley, American fashion designer; Dylan Valley, South African film producer; F. Wayne Valley (1914–1986), American businessman, original part-owner and managing partner of the Oakland Raiders; John W. Valley (born 1948), American geochemist; Mark Valley (born 1964), American actor; Paul Michael Valley (born 1966), American actor
The Willamette Valley (/ w ɪ ˈ l æ m ɪ t / ⓘ wil-AM-it) is a 150-mile (240 km) long valley in Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The Willamette River flows the entire length of the valley and is surrounded by mountains on three sides: the Cascade Range to the east, the Oregon Coast Range to the west, and the ...