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massif::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | geological formation, formation |
Examples of massif
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A Wendy house doesn't half give a different perspective to the Mont Blanc massif.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The Ottomans faced a stubborn resistance in the interior of the Rhodope massif.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The massif is partly still covered with primary forest extremely rare in Germany.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The name of the massif probably comes from the Croatian word for the lynx, ris.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The landscape is mostly flat, but it includes the foothills of the Jura massif.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It was fed by rivers flowing east-west from the borders of the Shandong massif.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Dominating the skyline was Mt Kinabalu, a stunning granite massif rising to 4095m.
From the couriermail.com.au
Initially it runs east before turning south around the massif of Mount Kenya.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Change has also come to the Aberdares, a mountain massif 50 miles north of Nairobi.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range
- In geology, a massif is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. In the movement of the crust, a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole. The term is also used to refer to a group of mountains formed by such a structure. ...
- In mountaineering and climbing literature, a massif is frequently used to denote the main mass of an individual mountain.
- A massive block of bedrock; usually a large landscape feature.
- A massive topographic and structural feature, esp. in an orogenic belt, commonly formed of rocks more rigid than those of its surroundings. These rocks may be protruding bodies of basement rocks or younger plutonic bodies
- A large mountain, or group of connected mountains, that are a part of, but independent from, a mountain range.
- (table 1) Gives the name of the massif to which the mountain belongs. If the massif is named after a linked main peak, the link is omitted here.
