70 results found.
... the land associated with the trachon, "a rugged stony tract." There are two volcanic districts South and East of Damascus, to which the Greeks applied this name: that to ...
https://bibleatlas.org/trachonitis.htm
... ' on the North and, Jebel ed-Druze on the East. The soil, composed of volcanic detritus, is extraordinarily rich. Here and there may be found a bank of vines; ...
https://bibleatlas.org/hauran.htm
... population of nearly 100,000. The region in which the town was situated is of volcanic formation, the name Puteoli being due to the odor of the sulphureous springs or to the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/puteoli.htm
... ranges in the Peloponnesus and in the valley of the Eurotas, in Boeotia and Euboea. Volcanic action is evidenced both in the parallel elevations of similar or contemporary formation, and in the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/greece.htm
... showing that the mountain peak known as Ararat was not referred to. This peak is of volcanic origin and lies outside the general region, rising from the lowlands of the Araxes (Aras ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mount_ararat.htm
... for some distance into the foothills of Taurus, and broken on its eastern side by the volcanic mass of Kara-Dagh and by many smaller hills. Strabo informs us that King Amyntas of Galatia ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lycaonia.htm
... showing that the mountain peak known as Ararat was not referred to. This peak is of volcanic origin and lies outside the general region, rising from the lowlands of the Araxes (Aras ...
https://bibleatlas.org/ararat.htm
... marked borders is intended. No region so well meets this condition as el-Leja', a volcanic tract lying about 20 miles South of Damascus, and 30 miles East of the Sea of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/argob.htm
... . It stood upon a terrace 650 ft. above the sea. Behind it are the volcanic cliffs to which the Turks have given the name of Devitt, or "inkwells"; ...
https://bibleatlas.org/philadelphia.htm
... things, together with the frequent, and sometimes terribly destructive, earthquakes, sufficiently attest the volcanic character of the region. The soil on the level parts around the sea is exceedingly fertile ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sea_of_chinnereth.htm
... things, together with the frequent, and sometimes terribly destructive, earthquakes, sufficiently attest the volcanic character of the region. The soil on the level parts around the sea is exceedingly fertile ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sea_of_chinneroth.htm
... things, together with the frequent, and sometimes terribly destructive, earthquakes, sufficiently attest the volcanic character of the region. The soil on the level parts around the sea is exceedingly fertile ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sea_of_galilee.htm
... ft. in height. Limestone, porphyry and Nubian sandstone are the prevailing formation; but volcanic rocks are also found. The range consists mainly of rough rocky heights with many almost inaccessible ...
https://bibleatlas.org/idumea.htm
... , slopes gradually southward to a height of about 1,000 ft. It is entirely volcanic, and there are many cone-like peaks of extinct volcanoes, especially toward the North It affords ...
https://bibleatlas.org/golan.htm
... things, together with the frequent, and sometimes terribly destructive, earthquakes, sufficiently attest the volcanic character of the region. The soil on the level parts around the sea is exceedingly fertile ...
https://bibleatlas.org/chinneroth.htm
... things, together with the frequent, and sometimes terribly destructive, earthquakes, sufficiently attest the volcanic character of the region. The soil on the level parts around the sea is exceedingly fertile ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sea_of_tiberias.htm
... close to its margin on every side. On the East and South they are mainly of volcanic origin, and to some extent of the same character on the Northwest side above Tiberias. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/jordan_river.htm
... position at the southern end of Jebel ed-Druze (the Mountain of Bashan) . On a volcanic hill rising some 300 ft. above the town, in what must have been the crater ...
https://bibleatlas.org/salecah.htm
... things, together with the frequent, and sometimes terribly destructive, earthquakes, sufficiently attest the volcanic character of the region. The soil on the level parts around the sea is exceedingly fertile ...
https://bibleatlas.org/chinnereth.htm
... which but a trace is found in the ocean, is supposed to have been derived from volcanic emanations. As compared with sea water, it is worthy of note that that of the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sea_of_the_arabah.htm
... which but a trace is found in the ocean, is supposed to have been derived from volcanic emanations. As compared with sea water, it is worthy of note that that of the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/salt_sea.htm
... sandstone (such as comes to the surface on the East of the Jordan) and no volcanic rocks. The lime stone formations are in regular strata dipping toward the Southeast, with an ...
https://bibleatlas.org/fountain_gate.htm
... sandstone (such as comes to the surface on the East of the Jordan) and no volcanic rocks. The lime stone formations are in regular strata dipping toward the Southeast, with an ...
https://bibleatlas.org/potsherd_gate.htm
... sandstone (such as comes to the surface on the East of the Jordan) and no volcanic rocks. The lime stone formations are in regular strata dipping toward the Southeast, with an ...
https://bibleatlas.org/house_of_the_forest.htm
... sandstone (such as comes to the surface on the East of the Jordan) and no volcanic rocks. The lime stone formations are in regular strata dipping toward the Southeast, with an ...
https://bibleatlas.org/hall_of_pillars.htm
