cordilleran in English

adjective

pertaining to a cordillera (chain of mountains)

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1. Distribution of Cordilleran Batholiths (in red) along part of the west coast of North America

2. The southern Rocky Mountain Trench was a major outlet valley of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet.

3. The Median Batholith is a composite Cordilleran Batholith with intrusive contacts against the Brook Street and Takaka terranes

4. Volcanic activity in the area culminated with the formation of pyroclastic cones, blocky lava flows, and pit craters that postdate the last Cordilleran glaciation.

5. An overlooked wide zone of high strain in the 'Autochthon' of the early-middle jurassic fencemaker deformation belt, northwest nevada: implications for cordilleran orogenesis, paleogeography, and ore …

6. Comparisons between this reference and the ages of detrital zircons in strata of potentially displaced outboard terranes may help reconstruct the paleogeography and accretionary history of the Cordilleran orogen.

7. The other Cordilleran Batholiths all underwent a period of peak flux between 100 and 80 Ma, centered on 90 Ma, and the Sierra Nevada, Peninsular Ranges, and North Cascades underwent an abrupt magmatic shutdown between 85 and 80 Ma

8. The first widespread inception of this duality at 2.71–2.65 Ga in the Superior and Slave Provinces, Canada, and in India and Australia, may reflect one of the first supercontinent aggregations involving accretionary, “Cordilleran style” tectonics.

9. During latest Precambrian time, in northwest Mexico, an about 2,000 m thick sequence of conglomerate, sandy shale and dolomite, containingCollenia, Cryptozoa and other organisms, accumulated on top of the eroded older Precambrian metamorphics and granitic rocks, that formed the northeast flank of the miogeosynclinal part of the ancestral North American Cordilleran Geosyncline, representing a near-shore facies.