mountain chain
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How to use mountain chain in a sentence
Even more tellingly, the zebra-stripe pattern turned out to be symmetrical on either side of the long, snaking underwater mountain chains known as mid-ocean ridges.
A WWII submarine-hunting device helped prove the theory of plate tectonics | Carolyn Gramling | July 2, 2021 | Science NewsUsing sonar, which pings the seafloor with sound waves and listens for a return pulse, researchers mapped out the extent of a continuous and branching underwater mountain chain with a long crack running right down its center.
How the Earth-shaking theory of plate tectonics was born | Carolyn Gramling | January 13, 2021 | Science NewsOn every side towered the immense peaks of one of the loftiest spurs of the grandest mountain chain of America.
Two Boys in Wyoming | Edward S. EllisFrom the ridge the road runs eastward along a branch of the principal mountain chain.
He found a path that led from the bank of the river, through the woods, across the mountain chain.
Complete Short Works | Georg Ebers
The hollow centre of this triangle, as appears by the accompanying map, is occupied by the Allegheny mountain chain.
Railroads: Rates and Regulations | William Z. RipleyThe razor-back mountain chain, upon one peak of which Les Baux sits, is known as the Alpilles.
The Automobilist Abroad | M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
British Dictionary definitions for mountain chain
a series of ranges of mountains
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