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单词 longitudinal valley
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longitudinal valley
longitudinal valley n. [after French vallée longitudinale (1779 or earlier)] Physical Geography a valley which runs parallel to a mountain chain; (in later use also) a valley which runs parallel to the strike of the underlying strata (now rare).
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1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 3 The great longitudinal vallies of the Alps.
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXVI. at Valley Saussure divides valleys into two orders, which he calls longitudinal valleys and transversal valleys... It is between these parallel ranges that longitudinal valleys are situated.
1875 J. W. Powell Explor. Colorado River (Smithsonian Inst.) xi. 160 I have elsewhere classified these valleys..in the following manner: Order first. Transverse valleys, having a direction at right angles to the strike. Order second. Longitudinal valleys, having a direction the same as the strike.
1912 P. MacNair Perthshire (2013) vii. 45 The Isla..bends sharply round to the west near Alyth and flows in a longitudinal valley along the syncline of Strathmore to join the Tay near Cargill.
1990 P. Kearey & F. J. Vine Global Tectonics ix. 181 Above the more steeply dipping plate..a longitudinal valley is developed between the eastern and western Cordilleras which contains the deposits of the Altiplano.
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