How To Use Mountain range In A Sentence
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Up until the 1920s, in the mountain ranges of Westmoreland and south into Fayette, many small farmers subsisted on bear meat, preferable to venison, and considered by many to be juicier and better than beef.
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Thousands of miles of unspoilt coastline, isolated and untouched lakes and pristine mountain ranges are there for the discovering.
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But there are myriads of other discrete territories, such as deserts, mountain ranges, peninsulas, and islands, that function as bioregions.
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Hiroshima -- As a mountain range rises angularly in the background, two Japanese misses, one in modern dress, the other clad in a traditional Japanese kimono, pose beside the Peace Bridge in Hiroshima during a day of remembrance, the ninth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima with atomic bombs.
Archive 2009-01-01
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The highest mountain ranges of the world are under your fingers; and also, as the longest finger is the middle of the five, so the Karakorum is the central range of Tibetan mountains.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
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These depths consist of vast mountain ranges, deep canyons, mighty steaming lava flows.
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Armenialandlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains; Sevana Lich (Lake Sevan) is the largest lake in this mountain range
Geography-note
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The Sierra mountain range runs the length of the north west coast of Majorca.
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In the wild, about 1,600 pandas roam forests scattered across six mountain ranges in southwestern China.
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Special lasers identify seismic faults in forbidding mountain ranges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus comes it that we take a final glance through two childish prison-houses, in far-separate Russian cities, wherein a youth and a maiden lie nightly dreaming the same dreams: one of them a spirit already bonded to the service of mind under the whip of circumstance: destined to storm rocky heights, from which hard-won eminences he shall command great views of sweeping plains and far-off mountain ranges; the other a pretty chrysalis on the eve of her change into a butterfly of butterflies; who is, nevertheless, to attempt flights overhigh and overfar for her frail wings; venturing to unfriendly lands whence she must return with frayed and tired pinions and a bruised and bleeding little soul.
The Genius
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One of these protective mountain ranges, known as Snowdonia, includes Mount Snowdon, which is the highest peak in either England or Wales.
The Pawprints of History
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Mountain ranges and oceans both provide barriers for the migration of plants.
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the plains lay just beyond the mountain range
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A broad macadamized road, leading south from Williamsport, Maryland, to Lexington, Virginia, was built at an early day to connect the interior of the latter State with the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and along this road are situated the principal towns and villages of the Shenandoah Valley, with lateral lines of communication extending to the mountain ranges on the east and west.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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On the landward side it was now white-capped mountain ranges, ranks of huge mountains that joined with the chain running down the centre of the continent.
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Storm clouds pile up above the sere plain, and in the foreground, a granite marker is etched with a mountain range, two pines and the words ‘Traveling Wolf, born 1878, died 1961.’
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They set off after breakfast, heading east toward the mountain range barely visible in the distance.
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We sat there mesmerized by the ringing baritone of his inspired voice, coming, as if from the hollows of a cave from some part of a high mountain range, where civilization could never reach or discover.
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The northern half of the island is a mountain range covered with jungle, to which a perilous beach road nervously clings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mountain ranges (sky islands) are a geologic mix of Tertiary volcanic and intrusive granitic rocks, Paleozoic sedimentary layers, and some Precambrian granitic plutonic rocks.
Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
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It has highly variable landforms, that range from torrid plains, tropical islands, and a parched desert to the highest mountain range in the world.
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Stone pine (Pinus cembra) occurs at the alpine timberline in the highest mountain ranges (Tatras, Czornohora, Marmures, Făgăraş, Retezat) of the Carpathians.
Carpathian montane conifer forests
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The Sierra mountain range runs the length of the north west coast of Majorca.
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There are temperatures of extreme cold and craggy mountain ranges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Between the heavy clays and blue mud of the mangrove swamps and the granite and sandstone of the mountain ranges, the undulating rises are mainly composed of red clay, sandstones, shales, and granitic and feldspathic rocks, with extensive deposits of laterite in red clays on the surface.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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* References: Massif des Maures = local mountain range; "La Voisine" means "neighbor" -- meet mine via her knitting blog; une ruelle (f) = narrow street; une arbouse (f) = arbutus-berry [from the wild strawberry tree]
Escapade
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The lake is situated at the eastern extremity of the mountain range.
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The feat of getting so many men across the forbidden mountain range which separates the west coast of Chile from the jungle on the east was reminiscent of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps.
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Every now and then the fog would break for a moment, exposing the mountain range looming in the distance.
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You have to climb far-flung mountain ranges or trek across the desert.
Times, Sunday Times
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The windows of the lower floors were dark and shuttered, but light poured through the mitred arches of the third-story windows, like a line of flame burning along the ridge of a distant mountain range.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
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This slender land bridge is furrowed by two parallel mountain ranges and, between them, the cavernous Jordan Valley, itself a northward continuation of Africa's Great Rift.
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In 1793 Peter Simon Pallas, as a result of his study of the two principal mountain ranges of Siberia, decided that the characteristic structure of mountain ranges was a central core of granite with schistose rocks containing no fossils along the flanks of the granite, and with fossil-bearing limestone rocks lying outside and above the schistose.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The group comes from the city of Ufa, which is home to just over one million people and is located in the Ural mountain range of Southwest Russia.
Undefined
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Orography is the term used to describe undulations on the surface of the Earth of any size and shape, from small hills to major mountain ranges.
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It has also been suggested that this geanticline or ridge has been subjected to denudational processes since its origin in the early Palaeozoic times, but it has become the highest mountain range in the world and it is still rising.
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Air mass flows down a mountain range, you get a foehn wind.
Beowulf's Children
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Meanwhile, he had marched his men to the Ridge of Wells, a mountain range between the provinces of Hunan and Kiangsi, where he was joined by the future commander of the Communist armies, Chu Teh, with several thousand soldiers.
The Last Empress
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But if the theory of isostasy is true, one would at first say that there could be no great accumulation through a geologic period of stresses which would finally yield in the shape of folded mountain ranges.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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But there are myriads of other discrete territories, such as deserts, mountain ranges, peninsulas, and islands, that function as bioregions.
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Local knowledge of the mountain range and weather patterns is essential for heli-skiing, especially on the steep faces of the northern Rockies.
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At first, the scenery looks like any other suburb, but slowly civilization begins to peel away and reveal awe-inspiring mountain ranges that dwarf any expectations.
Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Scandinavia Dreamin'
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Not far across the mountain range was the incontrovertible proof.
Times, Sunday Times
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In general, Venezuela is usually divided into four major environmental regions: the coastal zone, the Andean mountain range, the llanos, and the Guiana Highlands.
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Most self-appointed experts thought not; mountain ranges might prove to be an obstacle.
SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
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messengers were moving unobtrusively over the jet-black mountain ranges, bearing confidential tidings from sheikhdom to sheikhdom
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Geographynote: landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains; Sevana Lich (Lake Sevan) is the largest lake in this mountain range
Armenia
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The snow-capped mountain ranges, the sheer sensuousness of the sublime peaks and their changing hues provide a serene touch to the exhibition.
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Like most Tour de France books, this one has terrific photos: close-ups of cyclists slogging their way up steep hills, or more picturesque shots of the peloton winding its way through mountain ranges.
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Winding roads, with nail-biting hairpin bends, offer views over steep wooded slopes and the jagged profile of the Alpi Apuane mountain range, where chestnut trees, olive groves and tall cypresses proliferate.
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The natural droughtiness of the soil in ecoregion 17m is enhanced by its location in the rain shadow of the two mountain ranges.
Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
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The island's dramatic mountain ranges and long, sweeping beaches form the backdrop for some sizzling love scenes.
The Sun
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The Sierra mountain range runs the length of the north west coast of Majorca.
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Flying over the high mountain ranges emphasises why road travel is so tortuous, but the sight of these peaks and ravines is awe-inspiring.
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South-west, the long spurs of Molli and Catsuperri, each crowned with convents or temples, descended from Singalelah; and parallel to them on the south; but much longer and more lofty, was the great mountain range north of the Kulbait, with the temples and convents of Pemiongchi, and Changachelling, towering in the air.
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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the West's far-flung mountain ranges
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I was totally intrigued by the tame birds, the animals, and by the mountain ranges and the geography.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the craggy heights of a mountain range the air is heated on a slope.
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The spacious living room, which offers views of both the Teton and Gros Ventre mountain ranges, has coffered ceilings with custom millwork and a semi-raised masonry fireplace.
Jackson to the Max
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That power isn't created by man but it's something that you see in a river in a mountain range, in a wilderness, in a wild lynx or mink and that is something that is so sacred.
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The ecoregion basically corresponds with the Adelbert and Huon ranges Endemic Bird Area (EBA) although the small Adelbert Mountain Range is not part of this ecoregion.
Huon Peninsula montane rain forests
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Endemic ranid (Amphibia: Anura) genera in southern mountain ranges of the Indian subcontinent represent ancient frog lineages: evidence from molecular data, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 31, (2004) p: 734.
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WERTHEIMER: Lots of clashing goes on in Pearson's Sun Valley - masters of the universe versus mountain ranges, haves and have-nots, old timers and outlanders.
Sun Valley Sheriff Finds Murder On The Mountain
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My plan was to enter, at some convenient point in the State of Sonora, Mexico, that great and mysterious mountain range called the Sierra Madre, cross it to the famous ruins of Casas Grandes in the State of Chihuahua, and then to explore the range southward as extensively as my means would permit.
Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan
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The solido Wilson stared out over the Dessault Mountain Range to the east, where the snow-capped peaks diminished into the bright haze of the curving horizon.
The Dreaming Void
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A weak layer that formed in mid-November 1996 in British Columbia, Canada was responsible for avalanching in the Rocky, Columbia, and Coast Mountain ranges.
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North of the mountain range is the Oti plateau, a savanna land drained by the river of the same name.
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Feral hogs are often found in the remote, rugged portions of the state's Ozarks mountain range, where thick brush and timber make it hard to locate and kill the animals.
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It had to pass through gaps in the high mountain range to reach Wamena.
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The cityscape was a granite-and-glass mountain range, all glistening peaks and shadowy valleys of ceaseless life, a throbbing, pulsating, never-resting free-for-all of people and ideas and stories just screaming to be told.
Sins of Two Fathers
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The Himalayas is the highest and one of the most beautiful mountain ranges of the world.
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It encompasses a unique array of aquatic habitats, which overlie a submerged portion of the tallest coastal mountain range in the world - the Chugash Mountains.
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These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas
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The snow-capped peaks of the Sorondo mountain range provide a dramatic backdrop.
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Immense in stature and in deeds, he is not so much a man-mountain as an entire mountain range.
Times, Sunday Times
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They followed rivers for convenience, then struck out in a straight line, bisecting mountain ranges, cutting watersheds in half.
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The refuge's seven mountain ranges are a prized destination for wilderness hikers.
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The lake is situated at the eastern extremity of the mountain range.
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Andrew Sanocki A gaucho herding cattle The trip required two flights from Temuco, a city about halfway down the length of the country, and a long drive on a rutted highway, past shrub-filled valleys and craggy mountain ranges.
So Far, So Good
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There are four distinctive levels of terrain: the highveld, middleveld, lowveld, and the Lubombo mountain range.
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Scattered throughout the Mojave Desert, outcrops of Proterozoic sedimentary rock make up parts of the mountain ranges that divide this region into basins.
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The Jandia Peninsula is a stretch of white sands backed by a mountain range.
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Calcium carbonate exists as whole mountain ranges of chalk, limestone, and marble.
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The country has a rugged topography, with three Andean mountain ranges traversing the western half, although the country's highest peaks are located off the Caribbean coast in the Sierra Nevada.
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He points left to face the closest mountain range and says that the mountains are in Ethiopia.
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But before speaking further of certain industries south of the great mountain ranges, the region north of the Sierra Madre, which is allied to Southern California by its productions, should be mentioned.
Our Italy
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On the horizon, mountain ranges, constantly in sight, were the place for the plains tribes to cut poles for travois and lodge, and to find the best wood for bows.
Bird Cloud
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Far above them a river flowed off the mountain range, forming a waterfall.
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Rocky Mountains and the Columbia Mountains ( the Coast Mountains ) are two mountain ranges in Canada.
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The reverse of the Afghanistan Medal is based on a portion of a snow-capped mountain range with a multi-rayed sun rising behind the mountains.
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A few clouds drifted by, sweated out from the massif, a three-sided pyramid that was the highest coastal mountain range on earth, only thirty miles from the Caribbean as the crow flew.
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Like a mountain range whose profile appears equally craggy when observed from both far and near, fractals are used to define curves and surfaces, independent of their scale.
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The key ecological problem was that this enormous growth of dry farming crops took place on the steep slopes of the mountain ranges.
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The bright flowers were dug out of a mine in a mountain range of the Dominican Republic and are almost one centimetre in length.
The Sun
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Despite the stark imagery from the famines of the 1980s, it is well endowed with large areas of cultivatable land as well as mountain ranges, swamps and rain forests.
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Landscape after War presents a schematic mountain range and seascape elegantly integrated into a flat brown, green and gray field.
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This was the twelfth day of a battle that Buller's column was waging against the Boers and their mountain ranges, or "disarranges," as some one described them, without having gained more than three miles of hostile territory.
Notes of a War Correspondent
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The biota is generally considered derived from hygrophilous tropical warm level stock as well as Andean elements that arrived through the eastern mountain range of Colombia in particular and others with more affinity to the Andes of Mérida and the mountain range on the Venezuelan coast.
Santa Marta páramo
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Outwith the aforementioned mountain ranges, which are highest in Slovakia, larch is present only sporadically whilst arolla pine, if present, is considered by most an unnatural element.
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drive a new motorway across a mountain range.
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The Altai is the major mountain range in Western Siberia biogeographic region and plays a central role in maintaining the hydrological regime of the Western Siberian Lowlands, by providing the source of the greatest rivers of Western Siberia - the Ob and the Irtysh
Golden Mountains of Altai, Russian Federation
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The lake is situated at the eastern extremity of the mountain range.
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The topography includes vast desert expanses, high plateaus, rolling foothills and valleys, and immense mountain ranges.
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In 1992, it was the turn of a stretch of the Aravalli mountain ranges in Rajasthan and Haryana.
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Designed by Scott Miller, the 7,225-yard public course plays through desert vegetation, arroyos and canyons and features dramatic views of the surrounding mountain ranges.
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Wii-volution
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The two main mountain ranges in American are the Appalachian mountains and the Rocky mountains.
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You can dive in and do lengths as you inhale the sweet, pungent smell of cedar and enjoy the view of snow-covered mountain ranges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Parallel mountain ranges are separated by deep, narrowly incised river valleys that support drought-adapted microphyllous scrub vegetation at subtropical elevations (below 2,000 meters (m)).
Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests
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Antarctic continent has mountain ranges similar in size to the European Alps.
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As these mountain ranges collided through history, they left gas-filled deposits like sandbars in a river.
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It is located on the Rwandan side of a mountain range that straddles the borders of Rwanda, Congo and Uganda.
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It has a contrasting landscape ranging from beautiful and mesmerizing beaches to sprawling and craggy mountain ranges.
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While such an animal may find it a lonely existence, the Steenbras Dam, which stretches along the Hottentots Holland mountain range for many kilometres, with its large pine forest plantations and fynbos is an ideal habitat.
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I was totally intrigued by the tame birds, the animals, and by the mountain ranges and the geography.
Times, Sunday Times
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Great mountain ranges known as cordilleras divide Spain into distinct natural regions.
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Endemic ranid (Amphibia: Anura) genera in southern mountain ranges of the Indian subcontinent.
Biological diversity in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
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The Ballyhoura mountain range is the most popular local venue for hill walking and Griston Bog is signposted in Ballylanders.
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It's hard, unyielding rock, 700 million to 800 million years old, left over from an ancient mountain range.
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Today's art of cowboying is the same as it was 150 years ago, when cowboys in the Spanish vaquero tradition roamed mountain ranges and low-slung plains.
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If the overriding plate is continental, the volcanic arc expresses itself as an extended mountain range such as the Andes of South America.
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It's the fabled Cilician Gates that gave Alexander access to the wealth of Asia, a great, cleaving gap in a mountain range, like a paling missing in a fence, and through it is a sunlit plain beyond, stretching to the horizon.
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However, criss-crossed as it is by mountain ranges, Afghanistan provides limitless hideouts.
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It subsumes mountain ranges, valleys and flatlands at an elevation range of more than 6,000 feet.
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Mountain ranges furrow the land like ancient wrinkles.
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The Central Mountain Ranges are dominated by east-west trending ridges that are characteristically steep and rugged and underlain by resistant sandstone and novaculite (chert).
Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)
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These metamorphic and plutonic igneous rocks form the uplifted core of the broadly anticlinal Owl Creek Mountains, a mountain range that formed during the Late Cretaceous.
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During the workday, some will get outside for snowboarding, biking or hang-gliding in the Wasatch mountain range.
Daredevil's Delight
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Climbing and trekking are obvious income sources for countries endowed with high mountain ranges.
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Another road, little better than a bridle - path, runs northward to Ximena and through the corkwood forests of that plain towards the mountain ranges that rise between Ronda and the sea.
In Kedar's Tents
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In fact, Croft references the above books in his, giving them praise for their comprehensive coverage of the mountain range.
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A little before dawn, when the saw-tooth tips of the mountain range on our left were first touched with opal and gold, we turned off the araba track along which we had so far come and entered a ravine leading toward Marash.
The Eye of Zeitoon
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Solving the border dispute may be difficult, despite progress in recent years at demarcating the boundary, which straddles the Himalayan mountain range.
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'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mountain ranges, of drought and flooding rains ...'
Clone Wars 4 update
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The main island is green and hilly and has a mountain range that divides it in half.
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In the distance there is an extraordinary "butte" or isolated hill, Gunong Pondok, a landmark for the whole region, and on the right to the east a grand mountain range, the highest peak of which cannot fall far short of eight thousand feet; and the blue-green ranges showing the foam of at least one waterfall almost helped one to be cool.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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Due to the mountain range and its threatening weather, we've decided to drive awhile to more friendly geography.
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He said that the entire Arctic basin was deep, though it contained some submerged mountain ranges.
Times, Sunday Times
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This all says in advance okay, she occupies to the megalith mountain range, impossibly all and the mercenary soldier regiment is together ignorant.
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You have to climb far-flung mountain ranges or trek across the desert.
Times, Sunday Times
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griffon," supposed to be the Gypoetos barbatus, the Lammer Geyer of the Swiss -- a bird of the eagle or vulture species, inhabiting the highest mountain ranges in Western Asia as well as Europe.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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It is characterized by large sand seas, eroded mountain ranges, and upland mesas.
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It's the fabled Cilician Gates that gave Alexander access to the wealth of Asia, a great, cleaving gap in a mountain range.
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It's a takahe, an extraordinary, huge flightless gallinule long believed to be extinct until rediscovered in a remote mountain range 50 years ago.
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In North America, where most mountain ranges run north to south, many species were pushed south during glaciation and were able to reinvade northward during subsequent glacial retreat.
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Topography in both areas consists of extensive plains and low hills among mountain ranges.
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The soaring mountain range kept them and the area hidden and untouched for more than six centuries.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Eastern Afromontane Hotspot encompasses several widely scattered, but biogeographically similar mountain ranges in eastern Africa, from Saudi Arabia and Yemen in the north to Zimbabwe in the south.
Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
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The canyons between the peaks seemed bottomless and forbidding, and the mountain range stretched on for unseen miles in both directions.
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Mountain ranges are created by diverse tectonic processes, including convergence of plates and volcanic activity.
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Located primarily in the hills and mountain ranges of central and eastern Iran, with a small area in Pakistan, this ecoregion represents part of the Irano-Turanian geobotanical region, an especially active center of plant speciation.
Kuhrud-Kohbanan Mountains forest steppe
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There are temperatures of extreme cold and craggy mountain ranges.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Serra do Mar mountain range defines this ecoregion with montane forests of Bromeliaceae, Myrtaceae, Melastomataceae, and Lauraceae species.
Serra do Mar coastal forests
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Mines in the Pangaeum mountain range were extremely productive of silver and gold.
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The Sierra Madre Oriental is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico, spanning 1000 km from Coahuila south through Nuevo León, southwest Tamaulipas, San Luis
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Hill fog or upslope fog, as its name implies, is formed as mild moist air is forced to ascend a hill or mountain range.
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drive a new motorway across a mountain range.
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It also means I know who is crossing the supposedly impassable mountain range and why and how that range can exist, and where the kero for lamps comes from, and...
Gillpolack: I have all sorts of exciting things to r
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The Scandinavian Peninsula is halved by an uninhabited mountain range, thus permitting the existence of two countries,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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The water has a primeval chemistry that has prevailed along submarine mountain ranges since the breakup of Gondwanaland.
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I've gone the Montemorelos/Linares backroads route before but find that the trip through the mountain range is quite slow.
Best route from McAllen to SMA
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Beyond these cities stood the snowy peaks of this spectacular mountain range.
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The skyline is dotted with mountain ranges on whose slopes are dense forests of aspen, fir, spruce and ponderosas.
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The remoteness that made Goldberg shudder is just half a day's hike from the roadhead, on the east side of the mountain range where I happily spent all my childhood summers.
Ansel Adams at 100
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I was totally intrigued by the tame birds, the animals, and by the mountain ranges and the geography.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two American bases were almost three hundred miles from Berlin, ninety minutes of flying time, and the southern flight corridor from those fields passed over the five-thousand-foot-high Harz mountain range.
Daring Young Men
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[Footnote 1: A species of one of the suffruticose _Acanthacea_ which grows abundantly in the mountain ranges of Ceylon.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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The Altai is the major mountain range in Western Siberia biogeographic region and plays a central role in maintaining the hydrological regime of the Western Siberian Lowlands, by providing the source of the greatest rivers of Western Siberia - the Ob and the Irtysh
Golden Mountains of Altai, Russian Federation
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Adjacent fans may merge to form a broad sloping surface, known as a bajada, at the foot of a mountain range.
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The course features rolling zoysia grass fairways and large challenging Korea Velvet greens with beautiful views of Doi Suthep and other surrounding mountain ranges.
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The northern half includes a lower eastern mountain range 800-1,500 m high, nearly cut off by the 15 km wide Sungai Penuh valley graben and is about 75 km wide.
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, Indonesia
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Mr. Blake had never been in such a God-forsaken country or community before, but there was something in the utter isolation, the far-stretching waste of shimmering sand, the desolate mountain ranges sharply outlined, hostile and forbidding, the springless, streamless, verdureless plains of this stricken land, that harmonized with the somewhat savage and cynical humor in which he had sought service in the most intolerable clime then open to the troops of Uncle Sam.
A Wounded Name
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We might, as I fully believe (there being an almost continuous line of valleys, and no mountain range of any importance between) have seen straight down to Venice and the Adriatic on the South; to the lake of Garda on the South-East; and perhaps, if the Marmolata is not in the way, to the Ortler Spitz on the East.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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If you're taking a picture of a mountain range, you might want to use a telephoto lens, a lens with an especially long focal length.
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Large flashes of light occasionally burst forth from the opening of a cave leading into the opposing mountain range.
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The fabled state of Kashmir lies in majestic isolation amid the towering mountain ranges of the Himalayas and Karakoram that separate the torrid plains of north India from the steppes and deserts of Central Asia.
Eric Margolis: Almost Forgotten: The World's Most Dangerous Conflict
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The Taurus mountain range runs right along this southern coast of Turkey and protects the beaches from north winds making them a wonderful suntrap.
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encompassing mountain ranges
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From the cockpit of one of the allied air force's high-flying secret spy planes, the country stretches out like a postage stamp on a manilla envelope, its mountain ranges reduced to wrinkles.
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Sacramento Vs Indy during summer: Sacramento uniquely has (Vs Indy): Mountain ranges to the West and East, the eastern ones high mountains, relatively cold rivers running through / along it, a major marsh to the west and others a few miles to the south, low RH during summer, both (land modified) sea breezes and mountain breezes, many inversions, lots of dust.
Unthreaded #7 « Climate Audit
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Zacán comes from the Purépecha word meaning "stony place," because the town sits at the transversal mountain range on the skirts of the Volcano Paricutín.
The Meseta Purepecha
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Suddenly, the sound of clear bells came bouncing up the sides of the mountain ranges from the town by the river below.
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Lying within the circumpolar region, between the ocean and spectacular mountain ranges, its long dark winters are offset by plentiful hours of summer daylight.
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*References: Massif des Maures = local mountain range; "La Voisine" means "neighbor" -- meet mine via her knitting blog; une ruelle (f) = narrow street; une arbouse (f) = arbutus-berry from the wild strawberry tree
Escapade
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To the east of the road rise the lower slopes of a mountain range dominated by no less than seven Munros, the highest group of hills in Britain south of Tayside.
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The antlers are in space, apparently above a snow-capped mountain range.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In the western part, the Andean cordillera (system of mountain ranges) extends from north to south.
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Lillooet, between the Fraser River and the Coast Mountain Range to the west, the Cariboo-Chilcotin region of south-central British
February 2009
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Deposits of raw materials by the rail yards formed mountain ranges of limestone, iron ore, and coal to go with the towering gray heaps of by-product called slag.
Pistol
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This eastward road ends at a small peaceful bay, but from this village the road turns south across the Northern Mountain Range through a rainforest.
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The Andes mountain range is the backbone of the country as well as the continent of South America.
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Andrew Sanocki A gaucho herding cattle The trip required two flights from Temuco, a city about halfway down the length of the country, and a long drive on a rutted highway, past shrub-filled valleys and craggy mountain ranges.
So Far, So Good
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On the landward side it was now white-capped mountain ranges, ranks of huge mountains that joined with the chain running down the centre of the continent.
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In Arkansas, Ecoregion 36e is confined to Round Mountain in western Polk County, where it is underlain by sandstone and shale; novaculite (chert) is absent in contrast to the Central Mountain Ranges (36b).
Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)
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Clearly, the compass points all extended to the cornstalk-edged horizon, the roads shot out in all four directions with equal ease, and neither oceans nor mountain ranges prevented escape.
Sandra Steingraber: Escape from the Heartland - Atrazine, Susan G. Komen, and KFC
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These rocks do not, however, crop out as a continuous mountain range but in isolated inliers, many of which were uplifted during the Tertiary in response to Alpine movements.
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Mountain ranges also play a large part in local wind formation.
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Thus comes it that we take a final glance through two childish prison-houses, in far-separate Russian cities, wherein a youth and a maiden lie nightly dreaming the same dreams: one of them a spirit already bonded to the service of mind under the whip of circumstance: destined to storm rocky heights, from which hard-won eminences he shall command great views of sweeping plains and far-off mountain ranges; the other a pretty chrysalis on the eve of her change into a butterfly of butterflies; who is, nevertheless, to attempt flights overhigh and overfar for her frail wings; venturing to unfriendly lands whence she must return with frayed and tired pinions and a bruised and bleeding little soul.
The Genius
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Germany and Austria immediately protested, as several varieties of similar cheese - known as Harz cheese, after the mountain range - is produced there too.
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