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	Geological Society of America - Penrose Conference - 1999
		The North American Cordillera is an ideal laboratory for examining the conflicting geological and paleomagnetic data sets, and this controversy has major implications for other orogenic belts.
		A key element of the conference was the assembly of multiple investigators representing different disciplines from throughout the North American Cordillera focusing on a singular objective: constraining terrane translation along the western margin.
		He argued that the North America Cordillera is the key place to resolve the translation dilemma, owing to the north-south orientation of the margin and the east-west orientation of cratonal provinces and climatic zones, which should provide an ideal measure for terrane translation.
	www.geosociety.org /penrose/99pcrpt3.htm (2299 words)

	info: American_cordillera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The American cordillera consists of an essentially continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western 'backbone' of North America, Central America and South America.
		The Cordillera are the eastern half of the Pacific Ring of Fire, which continues around the Pacific Ocean via Kamchatka and Japan to Indonesia and Polynesia.
		CONCORD - BackgroundThe mountain regions of the American Cordillera may be especially vulnerable to changes in climate, to the ensuing changes in snowpack, streamflow, ecosystem functioning, and to a host of impacts on...
	www.napoli-pizza.net /American_cordillera.html (621 words)

	South America. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Topographically the continent is divided into three sections—the South American cordillera, the interior lowlands, and the continental shield.
		Paralleling the Pacific shore is the great cordillera composed of the Andes ranges and high intermontane valleys and plateaus.
		Beginning in the 17th cent., the exploitation of the continent’s resources and the development of its industries were the result of foreign investment and initiative, especially that of Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, but since World War II the nations of South America have sought greater economic independence.
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/SthAmer.html (1317 words)

	Sandra Wyld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Additional areas of study and/or interest are: the Paleozoic of the southern Appalachians, the Paleozoic and Mesozoic of the Canadian Cordillera, and the Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics of the Caribbean region.
		Both of these projects yielded an abundance of new testable hyptheses concerning the Neoproterozoic-Early Paleozoic and Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the North American Cordillera, that would be ideal for future on-the-ground studies and student projects.
		J., and Wright, J. E., 2001, New evidence for Cretaceous strike-slip faulting in the U.S. Cordillera; and implications for terrane displacement, deformation patterns and plutonism: American Journal of Science, v.
	www.gly.uga.edu /wyld.html (1182 words)

	Rocky Mountains
		Rocky Mountains, North America's largest mountain system, are widely known for their vistas of spacious subalpine valleys and rugged, exposed rock faces.
		The Canadian segment of the Rockies extends 1200 km from the American borders of BC and Alberta to the LIARD RIVER Basin, flanked on the west by a distinct trench and on the east by rolling foothills.
		The Canadian Rockies of song, film, painting and postcard, however, are in the Main Ranges, near the rail and highway routes through 2 mountain passes.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006898 (136 words)

	Lithoprobe
		Map of the Canadian portion of the North American Cordillera that indicates the collage of accreted terranes.
		LITHOPROBE's intensive lithospheric study of the western North American Cordillera, from the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains to the offshore west of Vancouver Island, was the first encompassing, multidisciplinary investigation of such a mountain system.
		This Southern Cordillera Transect gives us an outstanding opportunity to look into the processes that were responsible for westward growth, the processes that influenced the crust and lithosphere prior to the accretion of terranes, and the processes that were important in the subsequent modification of the Cordillera.
	www.lithoprobe.ca /media/slideset/slides/growth40.asp (1172 words)

	10(k) Mountain Building
		The North American Cordillera, the Himalayas, the Alps, and the Appalachians are all examples of mountain belts that are composed of numerous mountain ranges.
		Some of the major mountain belts on the Earth are the North American Cordillera (A), Appalachians (B), Caledonian Belt (C), Andes (D), Urals (E), Himalaya (F), Alps (G), and the Tasman Belt (H).
		Mountain building episodes in the North American Cordillera have been occurring over a very long period of time and still continue today.
	www.physicalgeography.net /fundamentals/10k.html (1266 words)

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	U9_Soils SAmerica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Topography and Geology- Topographically the continent is divided into three sections—the South American cordillera, the interior lowlands, and the continental shield.
		The Central Cordillera has a towering chain of volcanoes (e.g., Tolima) and is the divide between the valleys of the Magdalena and the Cauca rivers.
		Two cordilleras, the western one tracing the border with Chile and the eastern running north and south across the center of the country, are divided by a high plateau (altiplano), most of it 12,000 ft (3,660 m) above sea level—barren, windswept, and segmented by mountain spurs.
	www.soils.agri.umn.edu /academics/classes/soil4505/doc/unit9sam.htm (5818 words)

	Tectonics of N. America - Reference List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Walker, N. W., and Brown, E. H., 1991, Is the southeast Coast Plutonic Complex the consequence of accretion of the Insular superterrane?: Evidence from U-Pb zircon geochronometry in the northern Washington Cascades: v.
		J., 1987, Tectono-magmatic evidence of Cenozoic extension in the North American Cordillera, in Coward, M.P., Dewey, J.F., and Hancock, P.
		Smith, R. B., 1978, Seismicity, crustal structure, and intraplate tectonics of the interior of the western Cordillera, in Smith, R. and Eaton, G. P., eds., Cenozoic tectonics and regional geophysics of the western Cordillera: Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America Memoir 152, p.
	faculty.gg.uwyo.edu /heller/classtectonicrefs.htm (12501 words)

	Caltech Authors - Accretionary Tectonics of the North American Cordillera
		Paleomagnetic and paleobiogeographic studies are revealing major latitudinal shifts and rotations within and between suture-bounded fragments, particularly within the North American Cordillera.
		Such interdisciplinary studies are leading to a consensus that the Cordillera has been built by progressive tectonic addition of crustal fragments along the continent edge in Mesozoic and early Cenozoic time.
		The first problem to be considered is the recognition of native North American crust from exotic fragments that have been accreted to its edge.
	resolver.caltech.edu /CaltechAUTHORS:SALareps83 (679 words)

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	GSA Field Forum - Tectonic Significance of Vertical Boundaries in the Cordillera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tectonic Significance of Vertical Boundaries in the Cordillera
		In particular we will evaluate two hypotheses concerning the vertical boundaries in the Cordillera, and specifically the western Idaho shear zone: (1) The vertical boundaries are responsible for the northward translation of terranes; and (2) in contrast, the vertical boundaries record dominantly collision.
		Researchers with an interest in the tectonic history of North American Cordillera, from Baja to Alaska, modern or ancient, are encouraged to apply including but not limited to structural geologists, geochronologists, petrologists, paleomagnetists, geodesists, seismologists, and geochemists.
	www.geosociety.org /fieldForums/06idaho.htm (768 words)

	Bryan G. Mark
		Evaluation of recent glacier recession in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú (AD 1962-1999): spatial distribution of mass loss and climatic forcing.
		Mark, B. Seltzer, D. Rodbell, and A. Goodman, 2002b: Rates of deglaciation during the last glaciation and Holocene in the Cordillera Vilcanota-Quelccaya Ice Cap Region, SE Peru.
		Mark, B. Quantifying the significance of recent glacier recession in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú: a case study of hydrological impact and climatic control.
	geog-www.sbs.ohio-state.edu /faculty/bmark (436 words)

	PSD News 2006
		NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division researcher Dr. Henry Diaz is co-chairing the "Workshop on Organizing Climate Sciences in the American Cordillera" with Dr. Ricardo Villalba, Director of the Instituto Argentino de Nivolog’a, Glaciolog’a y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA).
		Topics include paleoclimate and modern climate observations, climate variability and change, detection and attribution of climate changes, and impacts on water supply, ecosystems and biodiversity, agroecosystems and landscape transformations, and institutional arrangements and future research directions.
		This workshop, focused on the American Cordillera--the Andes Mountains of South America and North American Rockies--aims to begin to address some of the climate observation issues and identify important areas where research into climate variability and change would provide useful information to decision makers in the region.
	www.esrl.noaa.gov /psd/news/2006/032906.html (337 words)

	The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Thousands continue to enter yearly, the judging has been covered by all the major American television networks, and journalists and pundits from Charles Osgood to George F. Will have commented on the BLFC phenomenon.
		White water enthusiasts will also be gratified to know that "the rafting capital of British Columbia," located at the dramatic confluence of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers, takes its name from our hero, acknowledging his tenure as Interior Secretary, when he was responsible for building numerous roads in Australia and Western Canada.
		In the off chance you are interested in the assessment of species diversity in the Montane Cordillera Ecozone near Lytton, B.C., go here.
	www.bulwer-lytton.com (1185 words)

	COMPLEX TIMING AND PATTERNS OF GLACIATION IN THE AMERICAN CORDILLERA DURING TERMINATION 1
		Evidence from alpine glacial deposits in the American Cordillera suggest that glacier fluctuations, and therefore the climatic conditions that caused them, during the late-glacial were spatially and temporally complex.
		In the Rockies, small alpine moraines record one or two late-glacial advances, an earlier one that predates YD and a later that is synchronous with it (e.g., Menounos and Reasoner, 1997).
		These inconsistent results suggest either that current age constraints are in error, or more likely, that the American Cordillera experienced rapid yet localized variations in temperature and moisture delivery, possibly related to an unstable Pacific storm track.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/inqu/finalprogram/abstract_55882.htm (478 words)

	Re: SD2200 tune-up requirement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The laterites of Australia are similar, but different, than the gossans of the American Cordillera.
		The Gossans of the American Cordillera are not laterites, but are correctly referred to as "eisenhut," (German for iron hat) or most commonly as a gossan.
		Ergo: It is incorrect to refer to the Ironstones--Laterites--- of Australia to be the Limonites of the Gossans of the American Cordillera.
	www.finders.com.au /_forum1/000006ec.htm (423 words)

	Studies in Neotropical Paleobotany. XV. A Mio-Pliocene palynoflora from the Eastern Cordillera, Bolivia: implications ...
		A Mio-Pliocene palynoflora from the Eastern Cordillera, Bolivia: implications for the uplift history of the Central Andes -- Graham et al.
		A Mio-Pliocene palynoflora from the Eastern Cordillera, Bolivia: implications for the uplift history of the Central Andes
		Ruddiman W. Kutzbach 1989 Forcing of late Cenozoic northern hemisphere climate by plateau uplift in southern Asia and the American west.
	www.amjbot.org /cgi/content/full/88/9/1545 (5498 words)

	METALLOGENY OF MAJOR COPPER DEPOSITS AND BELTS IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The copper endowment of the North and South American Cordillera, from Alaska to central Chile, is almost entirely confined to porphyry and genetically related but subordinate skarn deposits.
		The arc segments devoid of major copper deposits, such as the central Andean and North American regions during the Mesozoic, developed during periods of regional extension in either continental or oceanic island-arc environments (e.g., British Columbia).
		Nevertheless, isolated giant deposits at Cerro Colorado, in the Panama island arc, and Bingham, Utah emplaced during the transition from regional contraction to extension caused by slab removal at the landward margin of the North American Cordillera, are clear exceptions.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/06boa/finalprogram/abstract_99313.htm (439 words)

	johnston-pubs.htm
		Collisional orogenesis in the northern Canadian Cordillera: Implications for Cordilleran crustal structure, ophiolite emplacement, continental growth and the terrane hypothesis.
		Cretaceous backarc basin along the Coast Belt of the northern Canadian Cordillera: evidence from geochemical and Neodymium isotope signatures of the Kluane metamorphic assemblage, SW Yukon.
		Large scale, orogen-parallel displacement in the Cordillera: A granitic resolution to a paleomagnetic dilemma.
	web.uvic.ca /~eosc/people/johnston-pubs.htm (990 words)

	An Artist in Ice - American Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	ACCRETE Abstracts 1997
		The fold belt roots to the west in the Coast Belt and is Cretaceous and possibly earliest Tertiary in age.
		Also, the strike of the Wrangellia/North American boundary, marked by the coast shear zone, rotates 35 degrees northward, beginning a dogleg towards the east, partially accommodating the splaying of the terrane boundaries.
		Paleogene magmatism in NW British Columbia is dominated quartz dioritic and granodioritic compositions that are interpreted to be melts derived from an amphibolitic lower crust (Sinha and Thomas, 1996).
	geoweb.princeton.edu /research/ACCRETE/abstracts97.html (4966 words)

	Projected temperature changes along the American cordillera and the planned GCOS network
		Projected temperature changes along the American cordillera and the planned GCOS network
		Analysis of 7 GCM simulations with 2x CO levels shows large and statistically significant free air temperature changes (compared to controls) along the axis of the American Cordillera (from Alaska to southern Chile).
		Citation: Bradley, R. Keimig, and H. Diaz (2004), Projected temperature changes along the American cordillera and the planned GCOS network, Geophys.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2004/2004GL020229.shtml (283 words)

	American cordillera - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The American cordillera consists of an essentially continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western backbone of both North America and South America.
		The main belt of the Rocky Mountains along with the parallel Coast Range of mountains and islands continue through British Columbia and Vancouver Island.
		In addition the range can possibly be followed through the arcuate South Georgia Ridge across the Southern Ocean to the mountains of Graham Land on the Antarctic Penninsula.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1256241 (262 words)

	George Zandt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		My research interests are primarily in seismological mapping of earth structure, regional tectonics of the American Cordillera, and the regional and global evolution of continental crust.
		This is an international, multi-institutional experiment with scientific objectives of extending our understanding of the deep structure and tectonics of the central Andean Cordillera and in particular explaining the uplift of the Altiplano plateau.
		I am currently involved in investigating the structure, mechanism, and evolution of regional uplifts and plateaus such as the U.S. western Cordillera, Tibet, and the Altiplano.
	www.geo.arizona.edu /geophysics/faculty/zandt/zandt.html (477 words)

	Geosciences
		The animation is adapted from a mechanical map of the North American Cordillera originally constructed at 1:5,000,000 (Sears, 1997).
		Component tectonic elements were modelled as machine plates that move in harmony about sets of fixed or loose pivots.
		The map implies that the accreted terranes of the Cordillera are not far travelled wanderers, but have origins in an Aleutian-type arc and its collapsing marginal sea.
	www.umt.edu /geosciences/faculty/sears/animation/aboutanimated.htm (124 words)

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