Sentence examples for mountain backbone from inspiring English sources
Its mountain backbone is the Umbrian-Marchigian section of the Apennines, rising to 8,130 feet (2,478 metres) at Monte Vettore.
The island is irregular in shape and has a rugged mountain backbone, which reaches its maximum height at Mount Lobi (4,426 feet [1,349 metres]) in the centre.
Regions of hills reaching elevations of 800 to 1,000 feet (250 to 300 metres) lie on either side of the mountain backbone, while to the south and west of Lake Balaton is an upland region of more-subdued loess-covered topography.
The 2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake (M 7.2) occurred on June 14, 2008 in a zone of concentrated deformation along the mountain backbone of Tohoku encompassing SW Iwate and NW Miyagi Prefectures, NE Japan.
Like quills on a porcupine, they spike the emerald spine of Backbone Mountain for six miles along the Allegheny Front.
Northeastern Japan has a "backbone" mountain range that gets heavy snowfall -- seven feet or more on its western flank -- every year.
The 2008 Iwate-Miyagi earthquake occurred in an area of concentrated deformation along the Ou backbone mountain range of Tohoku, in the vicinity of several active volcanoes, including Mts.
In the backbone mountain range, where melt and water are present in the lower crust, it is expected that the crust will be relatively weak in comparison with the surrounding areas.
Bits of blue peeked from the mist around the spiky green and granite mountains, the geological backbone of the Lofoten Islands of Norway, rising from the water like the spine of some ancient sea creature.
As seen in Fig. 1(b), the upwelling flow that extends to the Moho directly below the backbone mountains is distinctly imaged as a low-velocity region that extends N-S at a depth of 40 km.
