St. Elias Mountains

plural noun

1. a mountain range between SE Alaska and the SW Yukon territory. Highest peak, Mount Logan, 19,850 feet (6,050 meters).

Example Sentences

The St. Elias Mountains in Alaska are more than 5000 meters tall, testament to a tectonic plate wedged underneath the region that is driving them up like a snowplow.

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In an earlier onshore experiment, Spotila tried to estimate the material going into and out of the St. Elias Mountains, and found it difficult to precisely bound the region.

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There is already evidence that the St. Elias Mountains are reacting to the abnormally high erosion rates, says Terry Pavlis, a structural geologist at UT El Paso and the leader of an earlier onshore study.

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