mountain chain

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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

Night set in, and the moon showed us, in the Blue Mountains before us, a deep cleft, called the Lehigh, or Lecha Gap, where that river passes through the mountain chain.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp