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A massive topographic and structural feature, esp. in an orogenic belt,
commonly formed of rocks more rigid than those of its surroundings. These
rocks may be protruding bodies of basement rocks or younger plutonic
bodies. Examples are the crystalline massifs of the Helvetic Alps, whose
rocks were deformed mainly during the Hercynian orogeny, long before the
Alpine orogeny. AGI
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