CORDILLERAN

Meaning of CORDILLERAN in English

adjective

see cordillera

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

CORDILLERAN — adjective see: cordillera
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CORDILLERAN — adj. pertaining to a cordillera (chain of mountains)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
CORDILLERAN — see cordillera
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CORDILLERAN GEOSYNCLINE — Linear trough in the Earth's crust in which rocks of Late Precambrian to Mesozoic Age (roughly 600–65 million years ago) …
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TRANS-CORDILLERAN — adj.
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OLD CORDILLERAN CULTURE — ancient North American culture of the Pacific Northwest that appeared about 9000 or 10,000 BC and persisted until about 5000 …
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CORDILLERAN GEOSYNCLINE — a linear trough in the Earth's crust in which rocks of Late Precambrian to Mesozoic age (roughly 600 million to …
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CORDILLERAN GEOSYNCLINE — Linear trough in the Earth's crust in which rocks of Late Precambrian to Mesozoic Age (roughly 60065 million years ago) …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
GEOSYNCLINE — I Linear trough of subsidence of the Earth's crust, in which vast amounts of sediment accumulate. The filling of a …
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TERTIARY — I. ˈtərshēˌerē, ˈtə̄sh-, ˈtəish-, -eri also -shər- noun ( -es ) Etymology: in sense 1, from Medieval Latin tertiarius, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CORDILLERAS — — Cordilleran , adj. /kawr'dl yair"euhz, -air"-, kawr dil"euhr euhz/ ; Sp. /kawrdd'dhee ye"rddahs/ for 1 , n. 1. a …
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CORDILLERA — — cordilleran , adj. /kawr'dl yair"euh, -air"euh, kawr dil"euhr euh/ , n. a chain of mountains, usually the principal mountain …
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CORDILLERA — (from old Spanish cordilla, cord, or little rope), a system of mountain ranges that often consist of a number of …
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YUKON TERRITORY — territory of northwestern Canada, an area of rugged mountains and high plateaus. It is bounded by the U.S. state of …
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TERTIARY PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. interval of geologic …
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PLEISTOCENE EPOCH — the earlier and major of the two epochs that constitute the Quaternary Period of Earth history, and the time period …
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PLATEAU INDIAN — member of any of various North American Indian tribes who inhabited the high plateau between the Rocky Mountains on the …
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PHILIPPINE LANGUAGES — about 70 to 75 aboriginal languages of the Philippine Islands. They belong to the Indonesian branch of the Austronesian family …
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PACIFIC OCEAN — body of saltwater extending from the Antarctic region in the south to the Arctic in the north and lying between …
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NORTH AMERICA — third in size among the world's continents, lying for the most part between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of …
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NEVADAN OROGENY — a mountain-building event in the Sierra Nevada region of eastern California, believed to have taken place in the latest Jurassic …
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LARAMIDE OROGENY — a series of mountain-building events that affected much of western North America in Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary time (the …
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JURASSIC PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. second of three …
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COLOMBIA, FLAG OF — horizontally striped yellow-blue-red national flag. Its width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3. Local opposition to Spanish rule in what is …
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CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. fifth interval of …
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CAMBRIAN PERIOD — oldest time division of the Paleozoic Era, extending from 540 to 505 million years ago. The rocks that originated during …
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ARECIBO RIVER — Spanish in full Ro Grande De Arecibo, river in west-central Puerto Rico. The Arecibo River rises in the Cordillera Central …
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ARAUCANA — region, southern Chile. It lies between the Bo-Bo and Toltn rivers and is bordered by Argentina on the east and …
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ANTLER OROGENY — a mountain-building event in Late Devonian and Mississippian time (about 340,000,000 to 350,000,000 years ago) that affected a linear belt …
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ALASKA — constituent state of the United States of America. It lies at the extreme northwest of the North American continent and …
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GEOSYNCLINE — n. Andean Geosyncline Appalachian Geosyncline Cordilleran Geosyncline
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