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Intermontane is a physiographic adjectiveformed from the prefix "inter-" (signifying among, between, amid, during, within, mutual, reciprocal) and the adjective "montane" (inhabiting, or growing inmountainousregions, especially cool, moistupland slopes below thetimberline).

The correspondingphysiographic noun isintermountain, while the nounintermontane is anecologic noun meaningamong, between, amid, or within "flora and fauna of a montanehabitat." As an example, analpine region would be an intermontane for a species that migrates between aglacial region and asubalpine region.^[specify]

• Intermontane Basin, a wide valley between mountain ranges that is partly filled withalluvium such as New Zealand'sMackenzie Basin.^[1]
• Intermontane Belt, aphysiogeological region in theNorth AmericanPacific Northwest.
• Intermontane Plateaus, theUnited States physiographic region of theIntermountain West.
• Intermontane Steppe, a term used mainly in reference to theSayan Intermontane Steppe.^[2]

Inpalaeogeography,intermontane may refer to

• Intermontane Islands, an ancientPacific Ocean chain ofvolcanic islands of theIntermontane Plate that were active during theTriassic period.
• Intermontane Plate, an ancient oceanictectonic plate on the west coast ofNorth America about 195 million years ago.
• Intermontane Trench, an ancientoceanic trench of theTriassic period along the west coast ofNorth America in the formerSlide Mountain Ocean.

• The Intermontane Basins and Plateaus

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