mountain chain
Example Sentences
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AFP joined as it surveyed biodiversity on a deep-sea mountain chain off Sulawesi island.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
New Curtin University research has revealed that the Ninetyeast Ridge -- the Earth's longest straight underwater mountain chain -- formed through a different process than previously believed.
From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2024
Just below the waves, coral reefs stretch for miles along an underwater mountain chain.
From Salon • Jul. 24, 2021
The resulting magma ascends through the crust, producing a mountain chain with many volcanoes.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
I at length again reached the limestone region; but I must have been a great deal too far east; for the mountain chain was much lower than at the spot where I had crossed it.
From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various
