• Intermontane areas seaward from the Nevadan belt[edit]. The Nevadan belt runs down the middle of the North American Cordillera.
  • North American Cordillera are the part of the Cordillera mountain range (the second is Andes or the Cordilleras of South America).
  • Together with the Andes, glaciers in the North American Cordillera show perhaps the most rapid rates of disappearance anywhere.
  • Where is North American Cordillera? In the United States, the Cordillera branches to include the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range, plus the...
  • Also known as: North American Cordillera, Pacific Cordillera. ... The area that now forms the Colorado Plateau , in southern Utah and northern Arizona...
  • The Pacific Coast Ranges, an integral part of the vast North American Cordillera, are a marvel of nature’s bounty.
  • The orogenic wedge is bounded to the west by the Guerrero Terrane, which is the second largest juvenile terrane accreted to the North American Cordillera.
  • The North American Cordillera is a group of five different areas called belts that all have mountain ranges in them. (from: wikipedia - north american cordillera).
  • The North American Cordillera, which stretches from Alaska to Mexico’s southern border, has some of the continent’s tallest peaks.
  • Silberling, N.J. et al. (1992). Lithotectonic terrane map of the North American Cordillera . Reston, Va.: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.