bending up on all sides

[Ula]

the plains are really valleys, great arid valleys, sixteen hundred square miles, with the horizon bending up on all sides, into mountain ranges. What does the "bending up on all sides" mean?

 

[teechar]

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[emsr2d2]

"The plains are really valleys, great arid valleys, sixteen hundred square miles, with the horizon bending up on all sides, into mountain ranges."

What does the "bending up on all sides" mean?

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