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| North American Cordillera |
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| The Basin and Range in the United States is a ? |
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| huge area of block faulting |
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| As North America moved westward, the_____ plate was largely consumed as it was subducted beneath the continent? |
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| Geologic evidence indicates that the Larmide orogeny ceased during the? |
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| A vast area of overlapping lava flows mostly in Washington state is known as the ? |
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| The Himalayas formed when the _____ plate collided with the _____ plate? |
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| The Cenozoic Era consist of two time periods: the _______ and _______. |
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| Paleogene and the Neogene |
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| Most of the Cenozoic-age sediment on the Atlantic coastal plain was eroded from the? |
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| Cenozoic deposition of limestone was common in the? |
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| Florida Section of the Gulf Coastal Plain |
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| The San Andreas Fault formed when the North American plate overrode the? |
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| Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt? p.333 |
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| A linear zone of deformation extending from the Atlantic eastward across southern Europe and North Africa, through the Middle east and into Southeast Asia. |
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| A late Mesozoic-Early Cenozoic episode of mountain building affecting southern Europe and North Africa. |
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| The broad, low relief area of eastern North America extending from the Appalacian Moutains to the Atlantic shoreline. |
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| A marine basin, such as the Sea of Japan, between a volcanic island arc and a continent, probably forms by back-arc spreading. |
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| Basin and Range Province? |
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| An area of Cenozoic block-faulting centered on Nevada but extending into adjacent states and North America. |
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| A mountain range made up of volcanic rick stretching from northern California through Oregon and Washington and into British, Columbia, and Canada. |
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| circum-Pacific orogenic belt? |
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| One of the two major Mesozoic-Cenozoic areas of large-scale deformation and the origin of mountainsw, includes orogens in South and Central America , th e North American Cordillera, and the Aleutian, Japan, and Phillipian arcs. |
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| A vast upland area in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico with only slightly deformed Phanerozoic rocks, deep canyons, and volcanic mountains. |
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| An area in North America made up of the Great Plains and the central lowlands, bounded by the rocky mountains, the Canadian shield, the Appalachian Mountains, and parts of the Guld Coastal Plain. |
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| A late Mesozoic-Cenozoic oceanic plate that was largely subducted beneath North America; the Cocos and Juan de fuca plates are remnants. |
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| The broad low relief area along the Gulf Coast of the United States. |
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| During the early creataceous India broke away from Gondwana and collided with Asia destroying volcanoes the sutured along a zone recofnized as the Himalayan orogeny. |
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| Late Cretaceous to early Paleogene phase of the Cordilleran orogeny: responsble for many of the structural features in the present day Rocky Mountains. |
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| North American Cordillera? |
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| A complex mountainous region in western North America extending from Alaska into central Mexico. |
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| A linear part of Earth's crust that was or is being deforemed during the an orogeny; part of an orogenic belt. |
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| A spreading ridge that was located off the coast of western North America during part of the Cenozoic area. |
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| A linear depression made up of several interconnected basins extending from Colorado into Mexico. |
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| San Andreas transfomr Fault? |
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| A major transform fault extending from the gulf of Mexico through part of California to its termination in the Pacific Ocean off the north coast of California. |
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| A cenozoic sea largely restricted to the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains, coastal Californiaand the Mississippi Valley |
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| A wide spread sea present in North America mostly during the Cretaceous, but it persisted into the Paleogene. |
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