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Massif Central
Massif Central [Fr.,=central highlands], great mountainous plateau, c.33,000 sq mi (85,470 sq km), S central France, covering almost a sixth of the surface of the country. The chief water divide of France, it borders on the Paris basin in the north, the Rhône valley and basin in the east and ... Read more
Cher
Cher river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising in the Massif Central and flowing generally NW across central France to join the Loire below Tours. The Berry Canal parallels part of the river. ... Read more
Annapurna
Annapurna , massif of the Himalayas, N central Nepal, forming a ridge 35 mi (56 km) long, including two of the highest peaks in the world, Annapurna I (26,502 ft/8,078 m) in the west and Annapurna II (26,041 ft/7,938 m) in the east. The summit of Annapurna I was first reached in 1950 by a French exp... Read more
Monte Rosa
Monte Rosa , massif, in the Pennine Alps, on the Swiss-Italian border. Its highest peak, the Dufourspitze, 15,217 ft (4,638 m), is the highest point in Switzerland. The Swiss side is covered by glaciers. A nuclear research laboratory has been established on the Italian side of Monte Rosa. ... Read more
Auvergne
Auvergne , region and former province, S central France. The area is now occupied chiefly by the departments of Puy-de-Dôme, Allier, Haute-Loire, and Cantal. The Auvergne Mts., a chain of extinct volcanoes (see Massif Central ), run north to south forming unusual and beautiful scenery. There ... Read more
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand , city (1990 pop. 140,167), capital of Puy-de-Dôme dept., central France, in Auvergne, on the Tiretaine River. One of the population and industrial centers of the Massif Central, it is home of the Michelin and other tire factories, and of important metallurgical works. The cap... Read more
Guienne
Guienne Fr. Guyenne , region of SW France. The name referred to different territories at different times. Guienne as it existed from the time of Henry IV (late 16th-early 17th cent.) to the French Revolution covered the present departments of Gironde, Dordogne, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, and Aveyron and... Read more
Loire
Loire longest river of France, c.630 mi (1,010 km) long, rising in the Cévennes Mts., SE France, and flowing in an arc through central and W France to the Atlantic Ocean at Saint-Nazaire. The upper Loire swiftly flows northwestward through numerous gorges in the Massif Central. At Orlé... Read more
Mont Blanc
Mont Blanc , Alpine massif, on the French-Italian border, SE of Geneva. One of its several peaks, also called Mont Blanc (15,771 ft/4,807 m), is the highest peak in France and the second highest in Europe. The southeastern (Italian) face is a massive wall; on the northwestern slopes are numerous gla... Read more
Sahara
Sahara [Arab.,=desert], world's largest desert, c.3,500,000 sq mi (9,065,000 sq km), N Africa; the western part of a great arid zone that continues into SW Asia. Extending more than 3,000 mi (4,830 km), from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, the Sahara is bounded on the N by the Atlas Mts., steppe... Read more

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Massif Central
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Massif Central [Fr.,=central highlands], great mountainous...the Aquitanian basin in the west. The core of the Massif is the volcanic mass of the Auvergne Mts. that rises to the Massif's highest point, Puy de Sancy (6,187 ft/1...
Vinson Massif
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Vinson Massif peak, 16,860 ft (5,139 m) high, W Antarctica, in the Ellsworth Mts.; highest peak in Antarctica.
Adamawa Massif
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Adamawa Massif , plateau, c.26,000 sq mi (67,300 sq km), N central Cameroon and E Nigeria, W central Africa. It is sparsely populated, and chiefly used for grazing. Tin is mined there and bauxite mining began in 1976. The Benue River rises on the plateau.
Tibesti Massif
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Tibesti Massif see Sahara .
Aïr Massif
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Aïr Massif or Aïr Mountains, Africa: see Sahara .
Teda
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Orientation The Teda inhabit the Tibesti Massif, in northern Chad. They are generally...by wealthier predatory peoples. The massif is centered in the southwestern corner of the Sahara. The people of the massif inhabit an area roughly between 15...
Niger
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...In N central Niger is the Aïr Massif (average elevation: 3,000 ft/910...the 1970s at Arlit in the Aïr Massif. Small quantities of cassiterite (tin...through Agadez (in the Aïr Massif), and into Algeria. Niger is landlocked...
France
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography ...inches) at high elevations in the mountains, on the Massif Central, and in the northwest. Annual rainfall averages...At the center of the country are the four Hercynian Massifs, with the Massif Central at their center. The higher mountain peaks...
Kazakhs
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...are bounded by the Altai and Tianshan massifs. In the extreme northwest are the southern...spurs of the Urals and the low mountain massif of Mugogzhari. Further east lie the Turgay...the north of the Aral Sea are the sandy massifs of the great and small Balger. The desert...
Madagascar
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...The Southwest is defined by the Ivakoany Massif to the east and by the Isala Roiniforme Massif to the north and includes the Mahafaly Plateau...end of the island features the Tsaratanana Massif with an elevation of 9,500 feet. The coastline...

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shoal retreat massif
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology shoal retreat massif A large sand accumulation that is preserved...and after a marine transgression . The massifs represent former estuary-mouth sand...Bight of the east coast of the USA the massifs are up to 70 km long by 20 km wide and...
massif
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences massif A very large topographic or structural feature, usually of greater rigidity than the surrounding rock. The term ‘massif’ is used of older crystalline blocks in an orogenic belt .
Michel-Lévy, Auguste
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...twenty years to the study of the eastern part of the Massif Central, of the Morvan Massif, and of the western Alps. Michel-L é...successive phases of folding and dislocation of the Massif Central toward the end of the late Paleozoic...
Boussinesq, Joseph Valentin
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...XXIV, no. 2 (1875); Essai th é orique sur l ’ é quilibre des massifs pulverulents compar é à celui des massifs solids et sur la pouss é e des terres sans coh é sion (Brussels, 1876...
Arbos, Philippe
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...regional geography. His great interest was the geography of the Massif Central, and toward the end of his life he contributed a lengthy...L ‘ Auvergne (Paris, 1946); and “ Le Massif Central, ” in La France (Paris, 1951), pp. 25...
Cloos, Hans
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...mechanics of magmatic intrusion when he investigated the granite massifs in the Erongo Mountains. As a petroleum geologist in Java...1922, 1925). Its basis was provided by the great granite massifs of Silesia. Cloos discovered that the granite, considered...
Gosselet, Jules-Auguste
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Yser, and on the south by Paris. He began with the ancient massifs of the Ardennes. With the presentation of “ L...the continuity of the folding in the two distinct geographic massifs of the Boulonnais and the Ardennes. The paleontological horizons...
Soulages, Pierre
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...the expression’. The primitive force of his work reflects his love of the prehistoric and Romanesque art of the Massif Central region in which he was born, but the forms of his paintings sometimes also resemble blown-up hieroglyphs or Chinese...
Muschelkalk
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology ...present-day British Isles in the west to northern Germany and Poland in the east. It was bordered to the south by the Bohemian Massif and in the north by the Baltic Shield (see Baltica ). 2. The mid-Triassic, when using the European tripartite divisions...
Liechtenstein
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...floodplain of the upper Rhine, while to the east it extends up the forested and then snow-covered slopes of the Rätikon Massif, part of the central Alps. Its mild climate is significantly affected by the warm Föhn wind from the south. Economy...

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range
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...latitude; limits, bounds, confines, parameters.   2. a range of mountains synonyms : row, chain, sierra, ridge, massif; line, string, series.   3. a range of quality foods synonyms : assortment, variety, diversity, mixture, collection...
mountain
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...mountains synonyms : peak, height, mount, prominence, summit, pinnacle, alp; ( mountains ) range, sierra, cordillera, massif.   2. a mountain of work synonyms : a great deal, a lot; a profusion, an abundance, a quantity, a backlog; informal...

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Massif Secures U.S. Army Contract to Provide 5 Key Garments for the Army's Fire Resistant Environmental Ensemble (FREE)
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 8/12/2009; 674 words ; ...RETAILING EDITORS Contact: Lorie List for Massif Mountain Gear Company, +1-541-488...Army has selected five garments from Massif Mountain Gear Company's flame-resistant...Recognized for quality and performance, the Massif garments will be part of a multi-layering...
Massif Secures U.S. Army Contract to Provide 5 Key Garments for the Army's Fire Resistant Environmental Ensemble (FREE).
PR Newswire; 8/12/2009; 700+ words ; ...Army has selected five garments from Massif Mountain Gear Company's flame-resistant...Recognized for quality and performance, the Massif garments will be part of a multi-layering...the soldier's performance. The five Massif garments included in the FREE program...
The Menderes Massif of western Turkey and the Cycladic Massif in the aegean-do they really correlate?
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...history of both massifs differ fundamentally...other. The Menderes Massif consists of remnants of the Cycladic Massif which overly an...Menderes nappes. Both massifs do not represent...as the Cycladic Massif, both massifs differ in tectonic...
Massif and Gehring Ink Deal to Exclusively Supply Flame Resistant Products to the Military.
PR Newswire; 8/27/2009; 700+ words ; ...Ore., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Massif Mountain Gear Company and Gehring Textiles...apparel. Under the terms of the agreement, Massif will become Gehring's exclusive customer...by Gehring, or jointly by Gehring and Massif, for apparel, headwear and gloves...
River Of Dreams: Le Massif's new owner has big plans for this little ski resort on the mighty St. Lawrence.(Traveler/On The Road)
Magazine article from: Ski; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...the-radar Quebec ski area called Le Massif. Rumors of big development are rampant...isn't the only one hanging around Le Massif. Like Vermont's Mad River Glen and Utah's Alta, Le Massif is a mountain with a cult following...
Tactical Holdings Completes Investment in Massif Holdings LLC.(Company overview)
Business Wire; 6/4/2009; 700+ words ; Massif Poised for Next Phase of Growth ASHLAND, Ore. -- Tactical Holdings...management, announced today that they completed an investment in Massif Holdings LLC (d/b/a Massif ), a leading supplier of flame resistant (FR) technical apparel...
Are the Malé Karpaty Mts. Composed From Three Granite Massifs?
Magazine article from: Geolines; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...groups: Bratislava and Modra Massif. Lower Carboniferous granite/granodiorite of Bratislava Massif showing affinity to S- type...the Mal Karpaty granitic massifs (in Slovak). Geol. Sbor...of the granitoids of Modra massif in th
Origin and orogenic role of the Chain Lakes massif, Maine and Quebec.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Abstract: The Chain Lakes massif has long been an enigmatic component...following new interpretation of the massif and its history. In the early Paleozoic...drove thorough retrogression of the massif, causing pervasive pseudomorphism...
United States : Five Massif core garments selected for FREE program of Army.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 8/13/2009; 700+ words ; ...Army has selected five garments from Massif Mountain Gear Company's flame-resistant...Recognized for quality and performance, the Massif garments will be part of a multi-layering...the soldier's performance. The five Massif garments included in the FREE program...
Variscan evolution of the Tanneron massif, SE France, examined through U-Pb monazite ages
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...separated from the Maures massif to the south by an east...basin (Fig. 1b). Both massifs are cross-cut by three...Tour basin in the Maures massif, the Pennafort and Reyran basins in the Tanneron massif). Both massifs seem to have experienced...