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intermontane

[¦in·tər¦män‚tān]
(geology)
Located between or surrounded by mountains.
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Scott Valley is an intermontane 220-square-kilometer agricultural groundwater basin at an elevation of 2,600 to 3,100 feet in Siskiyou County (fig.
Modeling guides groundwater management in a basin with river-aquifer interactions
Scarascia Mugnozza, "New geological data on the Cassino intermontane basin, central Apennines, Italy," Rendiconti Lincei, vol.
A Double Scale Methodology to Investigate Flow in Karst Fractured Media via Numerical Analysis: The Cassino Plain Case Study (Central Apennine, Italy)
In addition, in 2016 ripe fruit samples of the blackberry cultivar 878 and the raspberry cultivar Heritage were collected from an organic farm in Tafi del Valle (26.8666[degrees]S, 65.6833[degrees]W; 1,900 m altitude), another department of Tucuman Province, in the intermontane semiarid valleys (Zuccardi & Fadda 1985).
Occurrence of Anastrepha fraterculus and Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) in organically grown Rubus (Rosales: Rosaceae), in two contrasting environments of northwestern Argentina
Early- to mid-Pennsylvanian vertebrate fauna of an intermontane basin inferred from tracks and trackways of the Wamsutta Formation, southeastern New England.
Invertebrate trace fossils from the Pennsylvanian Rhode Island Formation of Massachusetts, USA
Other members of this clade include rufous-winged tanager, Tangara lavinia (Central America and the Choco), black-backed tanager, Tangara peruviana (southern Atlantic Forest), Lesser Antillean tanager, Tangara cucullata (Lesser Antilles), chestnut-backed tanager, Tangara preciosa (southern Atlantic Forest), scrub tanager Tangara vitriolina (intermontane valleys of Colombia) and the greencapped tanager, Tangara meyerdeschauenseei (range restricted in central Andes of Peru).
Right around the Amazon: the origin of the circum-Amazonian distribution in Tangara cayana
There are many symbiotic coal and oil shale basins in the world, such as the Huangxian [4-9], Songjiang [10] and Heshentuoluogai [11] basins of China, the Intermontane Basin of USA [12], the Junggar Basin of China [13], the US Green River Basin [14], etc.
The characteristics of coal and oil shale in the coastal sea areas of Huangxian Coalfield, Eastern China
For example, dry valleys have shrublands and relict patches of native forest, so future change might be to increase shrubland density in those intermontane locations.
Ecologia de los cambios de cobertura del paisaje de glaciares de montanas tropicales
It is common and widespread in low woodland and shrubbery, from Andean slopes and dry intermontane valleys in Bolivia (up to 1800 m), across lowlands and Chaco in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil (Ridgely and Tudor, 1989).
New insights on the rarity of the vulnerable Cinereous Warbling-finch (Aves, Emberizidae) based on density, home range, and habitat selection/Esclarecimentos sobre a raridade do vulneravel capacetinho-do-oco-do-pau (Aves, Emberizidae) baseados em densidade populacional, area de vida e selecao de habitat
and Derbyshire, E.: 1993, Quaternary and Holocene intermontane basin sedimentation in the Karakoram Mountains.
Rate of erosion and exhumation of crystalline rocks in the Hunza Karakoram defined by Apatite fission track analysis
The Pinjar dun (intermontane longitudinal valley) and associated active mountain fronts, NW Himalaya: Tectonic Geomorphology and morphotectonic evolution.
Mountain sinuosity front of the Ibitiraquire Range--Parana/Sinuosidade do front montanhoso da Serra do Ibitiraquire--Parana
Abdullah Khan and Sarfaraz Ahmad (2010) trace metal concentration in the waters of Rivers and Ponds in valley Field Intermontane Basin In the eastern Himalayas Journal of Applied Geochemistry Volume.
Human health risk due to trace element contamination in groundwater from the Anjani and Jhiri river catchment area in northern Maharashtra, India
This new taxon provides more evidence for an early radiation of Salvelinus in intermontane drainages of the western United States.
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