massif

A large mountain mass or compact group of connected mountains forming an independent portion of a range.

A large section or block of the earth’s crust that is more rigid than the surrounding rock and has been moved or displaced as a unit.

A central mountain-mass; the dominant part of a range of mountains; a part of a range which appears, from the position of the depressions by which it is more or less isolated, to form an independent whole; also, an orographic block or fault-block (German scholle); a band or zone of rocks raised or depressed between two largely developed parallel faults.

A block of the earth’s crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range.

A principal mountain mass.

A block of the earth’s crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists

a block of the earth’s crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range