Editing Intermontane (section)

==Use of the term==
*'''Intermontane Basin''', a wide valley between mountain ranges that is partly filled with [[alluvium]] such as New Zealand's [[Mackenzie Basin]].<ref>[http://pubs.usgs.gov/ha/ha730/ch_h/H-text11.html Northern Rocky Mountains intermontane basins]</ref>
*[[Intermontane Belt]], a [[physical geology|physiogeological]] region in the [[North America]]n [[Pacific Northwest]].
*[[Intermontane Plateaus]], the [[United States physiographic region]] of the [[Intermountain West]].
*'''Intermontane Steppe''', a term used mainly in reference to the [[List of ecoregions (WWF)|Sayan Intermontane Steppe]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.globalspecies.org/ecoregions/display/PA0815 |title=WWF - Sayan Intermontane steppe |access-date=2013-03-15 |archive-date=2017-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828102154/http://www.globalspecies.org/ecoregions/display/PA0815 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In [[palaeogeography]], '''intermontane''' may refer to
*[[Intermontane Islands]], an ancient [[Pacific Ocean]] chain of [[volcanic island]]s of the [[Intermontane Plate]] that were active during the [[Triassic]] period.
*[[Intermontane Plate]], an ancient oceanic [[tectonic plate]] on the west coast of [[North America]] about 195 million years ago.
*[[Intermontane Trench]], an ancient [[oceanic trench]] of the [[Triassic]] period along the west coast of [[North America]] in the former [[Slide Mountain Ocean]].