Sentence examples for single massif from inspiring English sources

The Garo Hills in the west rise abruptly from the Brahmaputra River valley to about 1,000 feet (300 metres) and then merge with the Khasi Hills and Jaintia Hills, adjacent highland systems that form a single massif of tablelands separated by a series of eastward-trending ridges.

All well supported deep clades were restricted to a single mountain massif, and each of these is occupied by a single clade with the sole exceptions of the Cantabrian mountains, with two separate lineages (the Quaestus and Speonomidius groups of genera) and some species of Bathysciola in the Pyrenees.

The distribution range of the genus covers all the major European mountain chains but most of the species of Soldanella are endemic to very limited areas, often comprising a single mountain chain or massif [ 5].

Researchers think the Tamu Massif is a single volcano because rock samples (labeled dots) have similar chemistry, and seismic surveys show that broad layers of rock emanate from the center of the feature.

The converter is in fact a single-phase transformer with a massif secondary winding, calculated to work in short-circuit but in a stabilized thermal regime.

Gelbison massif, specimen with a single flowering scape grown at 1100 m a.s.l on the downward side of a small rock island in a brook bed under C. sativa canopy, 40.21225 °N - 15.31623 °E, collected on the 28th of April 2010 and stored at the "Erbario Centrale Italiano" of Florence Italyy) since the 16th of June 2010.

Most of the strains from The Alps, The Massif Central and part of the Saône-et-Loire samples were clustered in a single, large clonal complex (CC1).

Although the massifs of the dry tropics often receive small quantities of precipitation throughout the year, the lowlands have a single summer maximum.

Öræfajökull, ice-covered volcanic massif, southeastern Iceland.

The massif slopes gently to the northwest.

Limousin belongs to the Massif Central.