massif
Kelime Anlamı :
1. kitle.
2. yerküre parçası.
3. dağ kitlesi.
4. sıra zirve.
5. boyuna veya enine dereler olan dağlık bir bölgenin ortasındaki kütle.
6. yerinden oynamış ve dört tarafı çatlaklarla donanmış yekpare yerküre parçası.
7. dağ kitlesi,etrafı derelerle sarılmış dağ grubu.
8. dağ kitle.
Tanımlar :
1.
A large mountain mass or compact group of connected mountains forming an independent portion of a range.
2. A large section or block of the earth's crust that is more rigid than the surrounding rock and has been moved or displaced as a unit.
2. A large section or block of the earth's crust that is more rigid than the surrounding rock and has been moved or displaced as a unit.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
A principal mountain mass.
2. A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists
2. A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
A central mountain-mass; the dominant part of a range of mountains; a part of a range which appears, from the position of the depressions by which it is more or less isolated, to form an independent whole; also, an orographic block or fault-block (german scholle); a band or zone of rocks raised or depressed between two largely developed parallel faults.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia