So you are embedded between these two mountain chains.

你就置身于这两条之间。

What is the longest mountain chain in the world?

上最长的是哪座？

What is the Earth's longest mountain chain above sea level?

地球上海拔最高的是什么？

There are also cliffs, mounds, ancient and quite dead volcanoes, even mountain chains!

月球上还有悬崖、丘陵、古老的死火，甚至还有链！

The Great Wall twists and turns along the tops of mountain chains in northern China.

长城蜿蜒盘旋在中国北方的。

Volcanoes form the backbone of the longest mountain chain on our planet, the Andes of South America.

火构成了地球上最长系的主干，南美洲的安第斯。

In the high mountain chain that runs north of Mesopotamia a wild mountain tribe had long been living.

在耸立在美索不达米亚以北的高地区，长期以来就生活着一个未开化的地民族。

Stretching thousands of miles along the west coast of South America, the Andes are the world's longest continental mountain chain.

沿着南美洲西海岸绵延数千英里，安第斯是上最长的大陆。

I meticulously noted these different depths, obtaining the underwater profile of this upside-down mountain chain that stretched beneath the sea.

我心地记下这些不同的深度，这样，我就获得了罗列在海水下面的这条冰的海底面影。

For one, the Rocky Mountains aren't the only mountain chain on the continent that block moisture blowing in from the Pacific.

首先，落基并不是大陆上唯一阻挡来自太平洋的湿气的。

Eruptions have rifted continents, raised mountain chains, constructed islands and shaped the topography of the earth.

火喷发撕裂了大陆，抬高了，筑起了岛屿并且形成了各种地貌。

Up until this point, the land in that area just wasn't as tectonically active as the rest of the mountain chain.

在此之前，该地区的土地并不像的其他部分那样构造活跃。

Both of these states are also mountainous states with the same rocky mountain chain running through each of them, so they have very similar geographies.

这两个州都是多的州，同样的岩石贯穿其中，所以它们的地理位置非常相似。

Kea live on the South Island, which is dominated by a huge mountain chain running 500km through the middle - the Southern Alps.

啄羊鹦鹉栖息在南岛，该岛被一条贯穿中部 500 公里的巨大——南阿尔卑斯所主宰。

These vents form along mid-ocean ridges, where Earth's tectonic plates are splitting apart, and lava rises up through the gap, then hardens into long underwater mountain chains.

这些喷口沿着大洋中脊形成，在那里地球的构造板块分裂，熔岩从缝隙中升起，然后硬化成长长的水下。

No other mountain chain on this or any other of the continents that I have seen is so rich as the Sierra in bold, striking, well-preserved glacial monuments.

在这个大陆或我所见过的任何其他大陆上， 没有任何其他像塞拉利昂那样拥有大胆、引人注目、保存完好的冰川遗迹。

How have they been distributed from continent to continent, across seas and deserts and mountain chains, usually so influential in determining boundaries of species both of plants and animals.

它们如何从一个大陆分布到另一个大陆， 跨越海洋、沙漠和， 通常对确定植物和动物的物种边具有如此大的影响。

If the shell is even slightly cracked during boiling, the white material bubbles out and sets like a tiny mountain chain over the crack - like an archipelago of volcanic islands such as the Hawaiian Islands.

如果外壳在沸腾过程中有轻微的裂缝，白色物质就会冒出并像一条细的一样在裂缝上凝固 - 就像夏威夷群岛等火岛的群岛。