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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A mountain system of Central Asia, mostly in eastern Kazakhstan and south-central Russia but also extending into western Mongolia and northern China. It rises to 4,506 m (14,783 ft) at Belukha.
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- noun a mountain range in central Asia that extends a thousand miles from Kazakhstan eastward into western Mongolia and northern China
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The Altai Mountains are a powerful condenser of atmospheric humidity coming from the west, while the east of the ecoregion (Sayan mountains) receives much less precipitation.
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"The Altai Mountains are a range about the middle of Siberia," explained Mr. Petrofsky.
Tom Swift and His Air Glider, or Seeking the Platinum Treasure Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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Even nowadays, Roerich’s followers continue his conviction that the Altai Mountains are a great spiritual center, connected in some way with Shambhala.
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Over the past three years, it has been grouped convincingly with a number of similar animals that have been identified in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and the Altai Mountains in Southern Siberia, dating from 33,000 to 16,000 years ago.
From the Cave to the Kennel Mark Derr 2011
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Last July, another international team identified the remains of a 33,000-year-old "incipient dog" from the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia.
From the Cave to the Kennel Mark Derr 2011
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This story begins with the discovery by a Russian team of a sliver of finger bone from a remote Siberian cave in the Altai Mountains, known as the Denisova Cave.
Dr. Denis Alexander: Made In The Image Of God: The Theological Implications Of Human Genomics -- Part 1 Dr. Denis Alexander 2011
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Contradictory though the dates appear, when combined with recent archaeological evidence for early dogs dating from 33,000 to 16,000 years ago across Eurasia from Belgium through the Ukraine to the Altai Mountains in Mongolia, they raise the prospect that wherever early humans and wolves met on the trail of the migrating herds of grazing animals they hunted--horses, reindeer and aurochs, for example--they formed alliances.
Domesticating Man's Best Friend: How The Dog Became A Dog 2011
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This story begins with the discovery by a Russian team of a sliver of finger bone from a remote Siberian cave in the Altai Mountains, known as the Denisova Cave.
Dr. Denis Alexander: Made In The Image Of God: The Theological Implications Of Human Genomics -- Part 1 Dr. Denis Alexander 2011
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Here we report a complete mitochondrial mt DNA sequence retrieved from a bone excavated in 2008 in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia.
The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia : Nature 2010
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The area represents the highest and most pristine parts of the Altai Mountains and provides a wide range of physical features which include: about 1,500 glaciers (Katunskiy, Akkemskiy, Mensu and others) with a total area of 910 square kilometers (km2); high mountain peaks as well as lower slopes and foothills; and deep mountain valleys such as the Bertek and Dzhulukul valleys.
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