Sentence examples for the mountain system from inspiring English sources

Chief components of the mountain system are the Kitami Mountains in the north and the Hidaka Range in the south.

Only the most easterly spurs of the mountain system, where the source of the Huang He (Yellow River) is located, have drainage systems that empty into the ocean.

Maximum aridity occurs in the middle segment of the mountain system; to the west and east, however, the climate is somewhat moderated.

Much of the rock that now forms the mountain system, which includes the Alps and the Himalayas was deposited on the margins of the Tethys Ocean.

Between Algeria and Morocco both the road and the railroad pass through the Atlas along the Taza Pass, which breaks the continuity of the mountain system between Er-Rif and the Middle Atlas.

The mountain system itself consists of several parallel ridges surmounted by numerous active and extinct volcanoes, including Mounts Talang (8,520 feet [2,597 metres]), Marapi (9,485 feet [2,891 metres]), and Singgalang (9,439 feet [2,877 metres]).

The drainage basin of the Ili and its principal tributaries the Kax (Kashi), Künes, and Tekes rivers is rugged and mountainous, the axes of the mountain systems running approximately west-east.

The Kurdistan ("Land of the Kurds") designation refers to an area of Kurdish settlement that roughly includes the mountain systems of the Zagros and the eastern extension of the Taurus.

Although the mountain systems there lie roughly parallel to the coast, as they do on the eastern Pacific coastlands, the western Pacific is noted for its many marginal seas.

The mountain systems of Central Asia not only have provided the continent's great rivers with water from their melting snows but also have formed a forbidding natural barrier that has influenced the movement of peoples in the area.

We study here with molecular methods the evolutionary history of a highly diverse assemblage of subterranean beetles in the tribe Leptodirini (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae) in the mountain systems of the Western Mediterranean.