The work of mountain building is still active in the western cordillera, as is evident from such an event as the San Francisco earthquake. In the Owens Valley region in southern California the gravelly beaches of old lakes are rent by fissures made within a few years by earthquakes. In other...
530 feet (2,600 meters) above sea level, this arid region between the Tibet Plateau, the Altun Mountains and the western Qilian Mountains in The People's Republic of China also is getting wetter. Satellite imagery shows that groundwater is increasing in the Qaidam Basin,...
1.A discontinuous series of mountain ranges in the northern Andes between the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Oriental. 2.A mountain range of central Dominican Republic. 3.A mountain range of northern Luzon, Philippines. 4.A mountain range of south-central Puerto Rico. ...
(Cordillera[,kɔːdɪ'ljeərə]山脉Range: the Coast Range-the Sierra Nevada-the Cascades-the Rocky Mountains) 山脉范围:海岸山脉的林区的内华达州,Cascades-the 洛基山脉 ⏹In between—a vast plain region一个广阔的平原地区: The Great Plains大平原 9. Highest point:The Sierra-Nevada...
The current geological configuration of the Western Mediterranean region is the result of the interaction between two main plates (Europe, Africa) and the Iberian microplate, which have been tectonically converging since the Late Cretaceous. This convergence led to the development of various orogenic sy...
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The highest 3He4He ratios (reported as RRA ratios: R = sample 3He4He, RA = air 3He4He) are associated with the active volcanic arc of the Western Cordillera (0.92 <RRA< 5.52) and approach ratios found at other convergent margins in the circum-Pacific region. A significant 3He component...
2、en,1.The Eastern Highlands Appalachian Range,2.The Western Mountains Cordillera Range,The Coast Range The Sierra Nevada The Cascades The Rocky Mountains,3000 meters high Grand Canyon with a maximum depth of 1 800 meters,3.The Central Plains The Central Lowland in the east (from five Great...
阿巴拉契亚山脉全场1200英里,由皮德蒙特高原、阿巴拉契亚高原及阿巴拉契亚山脉组成。 3、The Cordillera Range 科迪勒拉山脉:Composed of the Coast Range, the Cascades and the Rocky Mountains. 科迪勒拉山脉由海岸山脉、卡斯卡德山以及洛基山组成。 4、The Great Basin 大盆地:The Part between the Colorado and Colum...
United States - The Western Cordillera: West of the Great Plains the United States seems to become a craggy land whose skyline is rarely without mountains—totally different from the open plains and rounded hills of the East. On a map the alignment of th