| 单词 | fold mountain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfold mountain fold mountain n. (also fold-mountain) a mountain formed directly by folding, or one in which the strata are extensively folded. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > type of iron mountain1658 jokul1780 table mountain1822 mountain of accumulation1864 voel1876 nunatak1877 monadnock1893 block mountain1896 fold mountain1908 hen-cackle1934 1908 J. W. Gregory Geogr. 34 Fold-mountains arise from the crumpling of bands of the earth's crust by lateral pressure. Such fold-mountains resemble the wrinkles formed when a table~cloth is pushed across a table. 1925 J. Joly Surface-hist. Earth i. 24 The great Eastern Eurasian Chains of fold-mountains. 1965 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (rev. ed.) xxx. 1111 The axes of the major structures of a range of fold mountains..are generally roughly parallel to the trend of the range. < as lemmas |
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