The Andes must be observed from at least three situations: from the floors of the deep intermontane valleys, from the intermediate slopes and summits, and from the uppermost levels as along the range crests and the highest passes.
The Silurian is from a Bolivian locality south of La Paz but in the great belt of shales, slates, and schists which forms one of the oldest sedimentary series in the Eastern Andes of Peru as well as Bolivia.
Tributaries of the Columbia River system, especially the Clark Fork, provide a path for movement of lowland forms into intermontane basins of western Montana.
A boreal tree squirrel, such as Tamiasciurus, could hardly be suspected of crossing a treeless, intermontanedesert valley, miles wide.
Desiccation of the intermontane parts of New Mexico, Arizona, and Chihuahua, left "marooned" populations of Sorex vagrans on suitable mountain ranges.
Concurrently the major storm tracks of the west probably were shifted southward; in any event much of the now arid intermontane west was much better watered than it is today.
In southern British Columbia and northern Washington this shrew in the mountains is large and in the intermontane valleys is small.
This divide, as previously suggested, is thought to be due largely to stream and glacial deposits, which have been laid down in the previously nearly level-floored intermontane trough.
The Gulf of California, which separates such a large portion of the Pacific border of Mexico from the main body of the republic, has the characteristics of a drowned intermontane or orogenic valley.
Intermontane valleys and plains of southeastern Coahuila and probably adjacent parts of Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi and Nuevo Leon (see fig.
Arid plains and broad intermontane valleys of east-central Coahuila (see fig.
In the extreme southeast the still higher elevated plains and intermontane valleys within the Sierra Madre Oriental afford a third habitat for populations of this species.
An insufficient number of measurements have been made to determine whether these accumulations correlate with the boundaries of individual intermontane basins or with the limits of individual step provinces.
Features fitting this definition are called "intermontane basins" in this paper, following a suggestion made by Heezen et al.
For this reason cores taken in intermontane valleys and near the higher peaks will have considerable interlayering of turbidity-current deposits, and much of the sides and crests of individual high mountains is bare rock.
It is striking to note that in coring and bottom photography bare-rock slopes are found most commonly in the Rift Mountains and High Fractured Plateau, but flat-floored intermontane basins are absent in these provinces.
This must indicate either that the topography of the Rift Mountains is very new or that the sediment eroded from the crest provinces is carried all the way to the Upper Step Province where it is deposited in the intermontane basins.
However, turbidity currents must form near the shores of oceanic islands and the edges of shallow banks and probably contribute sediments to the intermontane valleys.
The topography is characterized by low hills and rather extensive intermontane valleys (Pl.
In contrast to the adjacent flank provinces there are no filled intermontane valleys, and the valleys are deeper and narrower than in the adjacent Upper Step Province.
The location of smooth-floored intermontane basins is shown on Plate 20.
The Shoshone stock, which originally occupied the Great Basin and western intermontane plateau up to the borders of Canada, sent out offshoots which developed into the ancient civilized tribes of tropical Mexico and Central America.
In like manner, the mountain-ridged peninsula of Farther India keeps its interior in touch with its leading ports through its intermontane valleys of the Irawadi, Salwin, Menam, and Mekong rivers.
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