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形容詞

intermontane (not comparable)

1. Between mountains.
   • 1915, Albert Gardner Robinson, Cuba, Old and New^[1]:

     The distinct types of relief include regions of high mountains, low hills, dissected plateaus, intermontane valleys, and coastal swamps.

   • 1916, Francis Lynde, The Taming of Red Butte Western^[2]:

     Later, the discoveries of rich "pocket" deposits in the Red Butte district lifted the intermontane hill country temporarily to the high plane of a bonanza field.

   • 2001, November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”^[3], Science, volume 294, number 5547, pages 1671-1677: 

     Sediment infilling, bathtub-like, of dammed intermontane basins formed flat high plains at each step.