It has been already stated that the aqueous rocks containing marine fossils extend over wide continental tracts, and are seen in mountain chains rising to great heights above the level of the sea.
It has been already stated that the aqueous rocks containing marine fossils extend over wide continental tracts, and are seen inmountain chains rising to great heights above the level of the sea (Chapter 1).
We must also remember that the real mountain chains of our earth are the continents, compared to which even the Alps and Andes are mere wrinkles.
The general origin of mountain chains, however, was at first naturally enough attributed to direct upward pressure from below.
If this be granted, it may be thought that in the comparatively new (geologically speaking) mountain chains, such as the Caucasian, naphtha is even now being formed.
The situation of naphtha at the foot of mountain chains is the principal argument in my hypothesis.
These are generally admitted; and in various ways, more or less obscure, geologists generally have supposed some relations between these and the forces of elevation, which have raised up mountain chains, etc.
And in so far as these are frequently the lines of mountain chains, and these latter those of volcanic vents, so the seismic bands are found to follow these likewise.
Ramifications and systems of mountain chains, and the means of determining their relative ages.
The lines (2) show the regions affected by Tertiary folding, largely occupied by mountain chains.
In the United States beds of a similar character occur right over the great plains, filling what seems once to have been a great gulf between the old highlands to the east and the towering modern mountain chains of the west.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mountain chains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
