海拔较低的山脉往往更古老，且通常是比它高得多的山脉的侵蚀遗迹。
Lower mountains tend to be older, and are often the eroded relics of much higher mountain chains.
另一些山脉可能是由地震引起的，地震使地壳断裂，并移动足够的岩石，从而形成块状山脉。
Other mountains may be raised by earthquakes, which fracture the Earth's crust and can displace enough rock to produce block mountains.
现在的北美大陆和欧洲大陆大约在40亿年前是连接在一起的，在那时，加勒多尼亚山脉与现代的喜马拉雅山脉一样雄伟。
About 400 million years ago, when the present-day continents of North America and Europe were joined, the Caledonian mountain chain was the same size as the modern Himalayas.
裂谷的西侧有维龙加山脉和鲁文佐里山脉以及几个因深深的裂谷充满水而形成的大湖泊。
The western rift includes the Virunga and Rwenzori mountain ranges and several of Africa's Great Lakes, where the deep rift has filled with water.
南部的地形主要是树木丛生的山脉，山脉一直延续到东部，被极深狭窄的峡谷分隔开来。
The southern landscape consists of partially forested mountain ranges to the east, separated by deep, narrow valleys.
震中距离拉奎拉市仅数英里，拉奎拉位于意大利主干山脉亚平宁山脉上。
L’Aquila, high up in the Apennine mountains that form the backbone of Italy, was a few miles from the epicentre.
世界上最长的山脉之一从大西洋海底隆起，这条山脉沿海底中部向南北延伸，几座山峰露出海面，形成岛屿。
One of the longest mountain ranges of the world rises the floor of the Atlantic. This mountain range runs north and south down the middle of the ocean.
内华达山脉和喀斯喀特山脉相连接于普卢默斯县，秋季的色彩反衬着覆盖该地区火山岩的灰色背景。 造成了引人注目的景致。
The Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Mountains meet in Plumas County, and fall color against the grey backdrop of the volcanic rock that covers the region makes for dramatic views.
那些山脉以及蕴藏在地底的煤矿影响着西弗吉尼亚；它也是唯一一个完全依赖于阿巴拉契亚山脉的州，同时它生产的煤矿量占到美国总数的15%。
Those mountains, and the coal that lies beneath them, dominate West Virginia; it is the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachians, and it produces 15% of America’s coal.
他从小就开始在苏格兰中部的黑水晶山脉（凯恩戈姆山脉）滑雪，甚至记得曾将一暖壶雪带回家作为纪念。
He began skiing as a child in the Cairngorm mountains, in central Scotland, and even remembers taking home a Thermos flask of snow as a souvenir.
山脉起起落落需要数千万年；而海洋出现与消失的速度甚至远比山脉起落要缓慢。
Mountains rise and fall over tens of millions of years; oceans open and close at rates even slower than that.
惠更斯山脉是最高的月球山脉——大约和珠峰一样高——也是附近的亚平宁山脉的一部分。
Huygens is the tallest lunar mountain — about the same height as Everest — and is part of the nearside Apennine mountain range.
时至今日，那些山脉在大西洋海底曲折蜿蜒，又穿过了南太平洋，延伸到了更低的印度洋，这些山脉将地球包裹了起来，就像缝了一个破破烂烂的足球。
Today, that mountain range still zigzags down the Atlantic and across the South Pacific and through the lower Indian Ocean, wrapping the globe like a crudely stitched soccer ball.
在忍受着巨大的困难经过瓦萨奇山脉、大盐湖沙漠和洪堡河沿岸后，他们终于在十月上旬到达了内华达山脉。
After suffering great hardships in the Wasatch Mountains, the great Salt Lake Desert and along the Humboldt River, they finally reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains in early October.
惠更斯山脉是最高的月球山脉——大约和珠峰一样高——也是附近的亚平宁山脉的一部分。
Mt. Huygens is the tallest lunar mountain -- about the same height as Everest -- and is part of the nearside Apennine mountain range.
美国落基山脉、内华达山脉和阿巴拉契亚山脉有几百个滑雪胜地，在英国你也可以滑雪。
There are hundreds of ski resorts in the mountains of the USA, the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada and the Appalachians. You can ski in Britain too.
海底拖网捕捞招致抗议的核心原因来自对水下山脉的保护。这些被称为海山的水下山脉中栖息有极其丰富的各种水生生物。
Central to the case against bottom-fishing is the protection of underwater mountains, known as seamounts, which are especially rich in Marine life of all kinds.
同样还有无可否认的巨大山脉与山脉倒影的无缝结合。
There is an undeniable appeal to the seamless merge between the massive mountains and their reflections.
更中心的乌拉尔山脉是区分欧亚大陆的西北面的山脉。
The more central Ural Mountains is a north-south range which divides Europe from Asia.
明盖塞乌尔水库坐落于库那河流域位于大高加索山脉东北方和小高加索山脉西南面之间的一处地质凹陷。
The Mingachevir Reservoir occupies part of the Kura Basin, a topographic depression located between the Greater Caucasus Mountains to the northeast and the Lesser Caucasus Mountains to the southwest.
不像美国，作为落基山脉的一小部分被保护在自然公园里，而坐落在加拿大部分的落基山脉本身就是公园。
Unlike here in the States, where only small fragments of the Rockies are protected in national parks, a large portion of the Canadian Rockies is held in reserve as parks.
(图)尼泊尔境内南喜马拉雅山脉的日出。科学家们一直对喜马拉雅山脉冰川储量和消融原因存在争议。
Annapurna South at sunrise, Nepal. There's disagreement among scientists about how much Himalayan glaciers are melting and the cause.
所有的海上浮冰都从两极消失了，安第斯山脉、阿尔卑斯山脉以及落基山脉上的冰川也消失了。
All sea ice is gone from both poles; mountain glaciers are gone from the Andes, Alps and Rockies.
尤纳山脉的这种情况在今年北落基山脉和美国西北各州并不少见。
The Uintas are typical of conditions throughout the northernRockies and northwestern United States.
连绵起伏的山脉包括阿尔卑斯山脉横亘于法国和意大利之间，形成了一道天然国界；而侏罗山脉则延绵构成了法国和瑞士难以逾越的国界。
A series of massive mountain ranges includes the Alps, which separate France and Italy, and the Jura Mountains that delineate the Franco-Swiss border.
它们组成了这个星球上最长的山脉，足足有50000英里，几乎没有人探索过它们，它们的高度堪比安第斯山脉，耸立在水下两英里的地方。
Together they make the largest mountain range on the planet, 50, 000 miles long and almost entirely unexplored, as tall as the Andes but two miles deep.
它们组成了这个星球上最长的山脉，足足有50000英里，几乎没有人探索过它们，它们的高度堪比安第斯山脉，耸立在水下两英里的地方。
Together they make the largest mountain range on the planet, 50, 000 miles long and almost entirely unexplored, as tall as the Andes but two miles deep.
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