| 1 | The area where Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, and China meet is called the Altai Knot and is in the heart of the Altai Mountains. | |
| 2 | In fact, an ice-dammed lake in the Altay Mountains had released deluges of comparable scale to the Missoula floods. | |
| 3 | The fossilized pinky bone was discovered in a cave called Denisova in the Altay Mountains of southern Siberia, Russia. | |
| 4 | However, believe it or not, its mysteries hidden among the Altay Mountains have far been unveiled yet. | |
| 5 | The uplifting, right-lateral strike-slip shearing, tilting and southward shearing of the Altai Mountains in Xinjiang have affected, since Oligocene, the drainage systems evolution and development. |