| 单词 | mountain system |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain system mountain system n. a group of mountain ranges showing similarity in form, orientation, etc., and assumed to have arisen from the same mountain-building event. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range ledge1555 range1601 sierra1613 cordillera1704 mountain chain1776 mountain range1809 chain1830 serra1830 mountain system1838 hump1914 1838 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 8 389 The first section of the present volume contains a geographical survey of the Ural mountain-system. 1931 C. M. Nevin Princ. Struct. Geol. xi. 289 A mountain system is characterized by folding, faulting, and igneous activities that vary in their complexity and relative importance throughout the zone of deformation. 1968 R. A. Lyttleton Myst. Solar Syst. iii. 91 It can be expected that mountain-systems will have formed on Venus comparable with those on Earth. 1988 P. Wayburn Adventuring in Alaska (rev. ed.) i. 14 Past encounters between the plates have produced—and continue to produce—the great mountain systems that curve through Alaska. < as lemmas |
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