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What is a massif?

What is a massif? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A principal mountain mass.
  2. 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
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From this elevated viewpoint the peaks of the Paine massif appeared as tightly packed turrets in some fairyland castle.
Collected here in 1945, the tailorbirds remained ignored until a 2001 expedition revisited the massif.
And my third is a mountain massif just about rugged enough to match its inhabitants.
It is at least another day's drive to el Geneina, if the road is not cut by wadis carrying rainwater from the massif of Jebel Marra.
Turning north Michael passes through the dramatic mountains of the Hoggar massif before he pauses in the oil and gas fields of central Algeria.
The massif comprises low-grade, mainly fine-grained, siliciclastic deposits, ranging from the lowermost Cambrian to the upper Silurian in age.

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