I had never before realized the great depth of feeling that a mountain range is capable of evoking.
Sharp peaks, knife-edged crests, deep valleys with ungraded slopes subject to frequent landslides, are all features of Alpine scenery typical of a mountain range at this stage in its life history.
A slow but resistless pressure sets in, and gradually, and with a long series of many intermittent movements, the vast mass of accumulated sediments is crumpled and uplifted into a mountain range.
A profound subsidence, often to be reckoned in tens of thousands of feet, precedes the upfolding of a mountain range.
This place may either be a point, as in a volcanic cone, or a line, as in a mountain range or ridge of hills.
One side of a fault sometimes stands higher than the opposite side, and forms a narrow and frequently high and rugged mountain range.
In reality, this broad, indefinitely defined region from a geographical point of view is a roughened plateau and not a mountain range or group of ranges.
The general interpretation of the existing conditions is that deep erosion has occurred and, in fact, a mountain range or a mountain chain worn down to a generally plane surface.
Having partaken of as much milk as they desired, they continued their journey a little further, when they came to a spur of the sierra, or mountain range, that cuts through that part of the country.
It was the foot of a rocky gorge, up which might be seen trees and bushes mingled with jagged rocks and dark caverns, with a lofty sierra or mountain range in the background.
One must not think of a mountain range as a line of peaks standing on a plain, but as a broad platform many miles wide from which mountains have been carved by the waters.
Brown's Park is a valley, bounded on either side by a mountain range, really an expansion of the canyon.
The river is running to the south; the mountains have an easterly and westerly trend directly athwart its course, yet it glides on in a quiet way as if it thought a mountain range no formidable obstruction.
A remarkable type of river is one which has been able to maintain its course through a barrier, even a mountain range, which has been built across it.
Such a length of time is, however, so short compared with all known earth history, that we are accustomed to refer to the formation of such a mountain rangeas simply an event of geological history.
After millions of years of work causing the deposition of thousands of feet of strata, piled layer upon layer on the sea floor, a force of lateral pressure is brought to bear and a mountain range is literally born out of the sea.
It was at the foot of a rocky gorge, up which might be seen trees and bushes mingled with jagged rocks and dark caverns, with a lofty sierra or mountain range in the background.
Mountain range, a series of mountains closely related in position and direction.
Defn: One in genesis; resulting from one process of formation; -- used of a mountain range.
If the area that is pushed upward is large, it becomes a plateau; but if long and narrow like a wrinkle, it forms a mountain range.
If the rising wall becomes high enough it will form a mountain range.
It is much easier for him to follow a valley and cross a mountain range through a low spot, although his course be very crooked, than it is to make a "bee line" for his destination.
This sort of a solitude is not infrequent on a highway across a mountain range, but the like is seldom seen along a river.
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