What's the difference between canyon and mesa?

Canyon


Definition:

  • (n.) The English form of the Spanish word Ca–on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (2) Mutants resistant to R 61837 (up to 85 times the MIC) were shown to bear some cross-resistance (up to 23 times the MIC) to the new compound, indicating that pirodavir also binds into the hydrophobic pocket beneath the canyon floor of rhinoviruses.
  • (3) Mariner 9 showed it possesses the solar system's largest mountain and its biggest canyon, while ancient riverbeds and streams were discovered at several sites, findings that have been confirmed and explored in far greater detail by subsequent probes and which continue to maintain hopes that we will one day find signs of life on another world.
  • (4) This 12-mile stretch of rapids enters a roadless zone of beautiful mountains and canyons.
  • (5) In this communication we describe the initial analysis of the complexity and polymorphism of sequences related to T-cell receptor (Tcr) alpha and beta chain genes in two subspecies, Sciurus aberti aberti (Abert) and Sciurus aberti kaibabensis (Kaibab) which have identical habitats and are separated by the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA.
  • (6) • 1050 East Palm Canyon Drive (+1 760 323 1858, thehorizonhotel.com ); double rooms from $109 The Movie Colony Movie Colony, Palm Springs Concierge John-Michael swears that Jim Morrison made the leap from balcony to pool here in 1969, and that Frank Sinatra was a resident while his nearby home was being renovated – and even though the myth of celebrity tends to get overblown, if not utterly fabricated, in southern California, we found no reason not to take him at his word.
  • (7) Sequoia also boasts 4,421m Mount Whitney, the high point of the John Muir Trail, which runs through Sequoia and Kings Canyon on its way up to Yosemite.
  • (8) "The company that was responsible for the Torrey Canyon should be paying for it under the polluter-pays principle but the international laws weren't in place back then," says Roussel.
  • (9) The 90m-high Hells Canyon dam, built in 1967, is the largest privately owned hydroelectric power complex in the country.
  • (10) A well-preserved mummified child from about A.D. 1200 was recovered fron Canyon de Chelly in northeastern Arizona in 1971.
  • (11) When I ask him how his background in geology is being used here, he tells me of his fieldwork at the Grand Canyon.
  • (12) Seroprevalence to Jamestown Canyon and snowshoe hare viruses was associated with increasing age.
  • (13) The virions of CE group viruses (CE, Jamestown Canyon, Keystone, LAC, Melao, SSH, TVT, TAH viruses and South River, an unregistered virus) have three major viral polypeptides, designated G1, G2, and N.
  • (14) But when the snow melts, Colorado’s perilous mountain passes, plains and canyons make the perfect setting for a road trip that takes in the best of the American landscape.
  • (15) Located just east of the more famous (and often overcrowded) Bryce Canyon, Kodachrome offers a quieter alternative.
  • (16) In a canyon between grey shattered precipices of bomb-ravaged buildings, an uncountable number of people wait for food.
  • (17) Fly to Salt Lake City airport Stay at One of the park campsites, from $10, or at Best Western Canyonlands Inn , from $160 Bob Gibbons and Siân Pritchard-Jones, authors, The Grand Canyon Guide (Cicerone, £14) Ancient dwellings of Mesa Verde NP , Colorado Mesa Verde (Spanish for green table), offers a spectacular look into the Pueblo people, who lived here from AD600 to AD1300.
  • (18) To visit the Grand Canyon, in north-west Arizona, choose between the more developed South Rim, which is open year-round, and has drive-up overlooks, museums and mule rides, or the more secluded North Rim, which is higher in elevation and closed to vehicles from mid-October until mid-May because of the snow (skiers and snowshoers are welcome).
  • (19) Those are garage doors from San Diego.” Garage doors are a popular material in this canyon.
  • (20) For an intimate encounter with this geology and the water that helped to form it, head to the canyon systems of Wadi Mujib to take on the Malaqi Trail, a sandstone assault course of rocky scrambles and dizzying waterfall rappels.

Mesa


Definition:

  • (/.) A high tableland; a plateau on a hill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1971 the Fountain Valley (Calif.) High School established a program at Fairview State Hospital in Costa Mesa.
  • (2) There is the rigorously landscaped swimming pool complex designed by a young (now disbanded) practice called Paisajes Emergentes, and the extravagantly roofed sports arena designed by Mazzanti, again, and Felipe Mesa.
  • (3) The classic Jedi response to subservience can be seen in the contrast between Luke’s first meeting with C-3PO – “I see, Sir”; “You can call me Luke”; “I see, Sir Luke,”; “No, just Luke” – and Qui-Gon Jinn meeting Jar Jar Binks: “Mesa your humble servant”; “That won’t be necessary”.
  • (4) A detailed morphologic and immunohistochemical study has been carried out on salivary glands excised from 20 cases in which the initial histologic diagnosis was either myoepithelial sialadenitis (MESA) or salivary gland lymphoma (SGL).
  • (5) Newborn mouse neocortical tissue was transplanted into the third ventricle of rat brain and the reconstruction and the origin of the blood vessels were investigated by using a monoclonal antibody against mouse endothelial surface antigen-1 (MESA-1).
  • (6) When MESA is precipitated with anti-MESA antibodies, another phosphoprotein of 80 kDa is co-precipitated.
  • (7) Because MESA is localized in the host cell membrane, we examined parasites with differing knob and cytoadherence phenotypes to determine whether MESA expression correlated with knob formation and cytoadherence.
  • (8) Fly to Salt Lake City airport Stay at One of the park campsites, from $10, or at Best Western Canyonlands Inn , from $160 Bob Gibbons and Siân Pritchard-Jones, authors, The Grand Canyon Guide (Cicerone, £14) Ancient dwellings of Mesa Verde NP , Colorado Mesa Verde (Spanish for green table), offers a spectacular look into the Pueblo people, who lived here from AD600 to AD1300.
  • (9) Park at the main overlook at Goosenecks and hike south and west along the old, increasingly rutted road for about a mile out to the tip of the mesa.
  • (10) The other fragrance, isoeugenol (ISOE), and fragrance mixtures, F-07 and F-22, were also found to be weak sensitizers in the MESA and vit A MESA.
  • (11) The mature-parasite-infected erythrocyte surface antigen (MESA) of Plasmodium falciparum is an antigenically variable, high molecular weight protein of trophozoites and schizonts that is located at the erythrocyte surface membrane.
  • (12) Intraerythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum parasites at the trophozoite and schizont stages synthesize a greater than 200-kDa protein, the mature erythrocyte surface antigen (MESA), that is localized at the membrane of infected red blood cells and manifests size polymorphism and antigenic diversity among parasite isolates.
  • (13) Colorado begins in the southern deserts around Mesa Verde national park ancestral home to the cliff-dwelling Anasazi, and climbs quickly into the soaring Rockies.
  • (14) In contrast, parasites from the same clone that were cultured without this selection lost the knobbed and cytoadherent phenotypes, but continued to express MESA.
  • (15) New this year are ranger-guided hikes to rarely visited cliff dwellings on Wetherill Mesa and to the Spring House site, a remote canyon where Pueblo multi-storey dwellings are built into the cliffside.
  • (16) The predicted secondary structure suggests that MESA is a fibrillar protein and it shows similarity to a number of cytoskeletal and neurofilament proteins, including myosin, a protein that itself binds to protein 4.1.
  • (17) It’s not just the landscape – those red cliffs, mesas rearing up against a crisp and empty sky, that inspired Hollywood producers of the 1930s and 40s to shoot westerns such as Broken Arrow and Stagecoach in the area.
  • (18) of Travenol Laboratories, Inc., Costa Mesa, Calif.), a macroscopically read, nontreponemal card test, was undertaken in order to further evaluate the validity of this procedure as an aid in the diagnosis of syphilis.
  • (19) We conclude that the MESA allowed identification of ACD potency for known sensitizers at very low concentrations which do not produce ACD with other techniques.
  • (20) Fluorosilicone-acrylate polymer lenses adsorb and release the most preservative, while polymethylmethacrylate lenses (Paragon Optical Inc, Mesa, Ariz) adsorb and release the least.