mountain range

mountain range
   A single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, orientation, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system.
   Compare: mountain system, mountains.
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Glossary of landform and geologic terms. 2013.

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