The French landscape, for the most part, is composed of relatively low-lying plains, plateaus, and older mountain blocks, or massifs.
This warming causes a localized thermal expansion and consequently a localized upwarping or doming of the Earth's surface, as in the case of the Yellowstone area or the Massif Central in France.
The limited areas above 8,000 feet are either volcanic peaks or resistant massifs.
Vale of Tempe, Modern Greek Témbi, narrow valley between the southern Olympus (Modern Greek: Ólympos) and northern Ossa (Kíssavos or Óssa) massifs of northeastern Thessaly (Thessalía), Greece.
It now flows 127 mi (205 km) through the mountains and plains of Thessaly, thrusting itself through the Vale of Tempe between the Olympus (Ólympos) and Ossa (Kíssavos or Óssa) massifs and emptying at the entrance to the Gulf of Thérmai (Thermaïkós) of the western Aegean Sea.
This centripetal early colonisation, completed ca. 10 +/- 3 MY ago (Fig. 3), was followed in some cases by an intra-genus diversification in each of the valleys or mountain massifs to which these groups are currently confined.
One can go down halls and turn corridors in the labyrinth of offices in Sciences Po, the great French institute of political science, and bump into scholars whose special subject is the Roma of Bulgaria, or the Manouches of the Massif Central, or the Sinti of Italy, busy pursuing truths of their actual history and of the romance they trail.
Now it's an essential overnight stop for hikers circling the massif or tackling the peaks.
Ossa, Modern Greek Óssa, or Kíssavos, mountain massif, nomós (department) of Lárissa (Modern Greek: Lárisa), eastern Thessaly (Thessalía), Greece.
He often seems to be positioned, physically, in the background, face half-hidden behind Karamo's satin-jacketed shoulder or the silvery massif of Tan's hair.
