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
The country straddles two tectonic plates, which are divided by an undersea mountain chain that oozes molten hot rock, or magma.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022
Just below the waves, coral reefs stretch for miles along an underwater mountain chain.
From Salon • Jul. 24, 2021
And if they are one in blessing, So in suffering they are one; Freeze in frost and scorch in sun: That, upon his mountain chain, This, upon his parching plain.
From Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) by Walsh, William Shepard