coulees

The country people sell the wood; they send it down the slopes, which are called coulees, locally, and which lead down to the plain, and there they stack it into piles, which they sell thrice a year to the wood merchants.

Original Short Stories — Volume 01 Guy de Maupassant 1871

The country people sell the wood; they send it down the slopes, which are called coulees, locally, and which lead down to the plain, and there they stack it into piles, which they sell thrice a year to the wood merchants.

Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871

These are known as coulees, and sometimes from these coulees cinder cones arise.

Canyons of the Colorado John Wesley Powell 1868

She has knuckles like my grandfather had, black hair in the coulees, and my throw up in her head hair.

Strings Go Michael Seidel 2011

If you spook one herd, you just go over a few more coulees and catch up with them or find another herd.

Lazz Loads: The Short Magnums 2008

The region is a flat to gently rolling plain with exposed bedrock and sandstone cliffs where the Red River Valley has carved an exceptionally eroded badlands of coulees, gulches, mesas and buttes, knife-edges and capped pinnacles (hoodoos) from the layers of light multi-colored rocks of the valley.

Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada 2009

At the end of the last Ice Age 13,000 years ago, a sheet of glacial ice 600m thick eroded the upper layers of rock, and huge meltwater rivers carved the Red Deer river valley with its badlands of coulees, mesas and buttes, out of the soft rock, exposing this great concentration of fossil-bearing sediments.

Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada 2009

Open grassland and coulees provide a habitat for pronghorn antelope.

Great Plains ecoregion (CEC) 2008

Sprays of silver-green graced the coulees where the Russian olives grew.

Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

Sprays of silver-green graced the coulees where the Russian olives grew.

Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007