Meanings of ancient massif in English

But the ancient massif did not escape unscathed from the great forces that created the high-peaked mountains.

Newer rock had formed on the ancient massif, but outcrops of the original mountains still pierced the sedimentary crust.

A foot of the ancient massif of the north had stretched too far south and was split by the dividing waters of the river.

During an earlier advancing period, the mountain glaciers filled the deep trench of a fault line separating the mountain foreland and the ancient massif.