Sentence examples for major mountain system from inspiring English sources

Cordillera Real, also called Cordillera Oriental, major mountain system, the easternmost of the two in Bolivia.

It forms the major mountain system of Yamaguchi, Hiroshima, Shimane, Okayama, and Tottori ken (prefectures) and extends to the fault scarp of the Hira Range along Lake Biwa.

Phylogenetic analysis was robust to changes in alignment and reconstruction method and revealed strongly supported clades, each of them restricted to a major mountain system in the Iberian peninsula.

Many of the classic postorogenic clastic wedge systems found in the major mountain systems of the world contain abundant lithic arenites.

Because of the pattern of major mountain systems of the globe, a relatively small proportion (one-seventh) of the total continental drainage enters the Pacific a total drainage area of less than about three times the total area of Australia.

Previous studies have indicated that Bursera's diversification may be tied to the formation of major mountain systems in Mexico [15], [16].

Prince Albert Mountains, major mountain group of Antarctica.

Earth movements particularly in late Tertiary, Pleistocene and recent times, have resulted in the formation of the major mountain blocks and Rift Valley systems.

Subsequent ocean basin closure and continental collision deforms the continental shelf and rise assemblages, incorporating clean quartz arenite units into the resulting folded and faulted mountain system, typically as major ridges.

Foreland fold and thrust belts are found at the front of a mountain system where thick piles of sedimentary rock have been transported toward the continental interior along major thrust faults.

Sierra Madre, mountain system of Mexico.