Kuskokwim Mountains
mountains, Alaska, United States
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North America
- In Alaskan mountains: Physiography of the central ranges
…several smaller groups, notably the Kuskokwim Mountains. Those ranges are somewhat lower and more rolling than the eastern highlands, with ridges trending southwest-northeast. Numerous isolated, nearly circular groups of mountains rise above the ridges. The bedrock includes tightly folded Paleozoic and Mesozoic sediments and volcanics and Cenozoic (i.e., formed in…
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