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Coast Range

noun

  1. a series of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America, extending from Baja California to southeastern Alaska.


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The principal part of the water that flows in Quality river descends from the Coast Range.

The narrow canyons and the brush-covered belts of the main axis of the Coast Range were destitute of inhabitants.

Its back-bone is not a continuation of the rich Sierra Nevada, but of the coast range, which is poor in minerals.

The Taku River enters the head of the inlet a little to the east of the glaciers, coming from beyond the main coast range.

The suggestion has been offered that the northern portion of the Coast Range is a dissected peneplain.

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