Intermontane basin

Intermontane is a physiographic adjective "" ("signifying among, between, amid, during, within, mutual, reciprocal) and the adjective "" ("inhabiting, or growing in mountainous regions, especially cool, moist upland slopes below the timberline.")

The corresponding physiographic noun is , while the noun intermontane is an ecologic noun meaning among, between, amid, or within " habitat." As an example, an alpine region would be an intermontane for a species that migrates between a glacial region and a subalpine region.

In palaeogeography, intermontane may refer to

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