Talk:Pacific Cordillera (Canada)
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Merge discussion
This can also be called the Western Cordillera, but IMO there's no way
- or waitaminit - I just read through the Pacific Coast Range and there's that nomenclature issue about the local Coast Range in Oregon vs the use of the term for all of the Cascades/Coast Mountains/St. Elias/Sierras et al......once again, the physiographic province doesn't end at hte US border....only the name does. Pacific Cordillera includes the Interior Mountains and Columbia Mountains and Rockies, as well as the plateaus between them and hte Coast Ranges; so it'snot the same as Pacific Coast Ranges or the Pacific Mountain System......I'll havee to think about this as to where to move the merge tags, and ingeneral I rthink the geography-of-the-US project editors and geography-of-Canada project editors should compare notes on all these kinds of cross-border crossovers and try and straighten them out....Skookum1 (talk) 17:29, 30 March 2008 (UTC)]
- Don't merge these. In most of the literature I have read it is called the Western Cordillera. There is a lot of literature on this topic - it just need to be elaborated upon. The Geography of the United States Pacific Mountain System has a lot of useful information, but it is Ameri-centric. Perhaps renaming to Western Pacific Cordillera (or Pacific Cordillera) - get rid of the United States and then a merger. I'll put in a bit of quick info and will add this to one of my projects that I will tinker on at some point. Thompsma (talk) 07:28, 9 January 2009 (UTC)]
- Don't merge these. In most of the literature I have read it is called the Western Cordillera. There is a lot of literature on this topic - it just need to be elaborated upon. The
Updated Western Pacific Cordillera
This page should now be removed. I've gone in and updated
Mergers
in light of the lack of signatures and dates, this section's subsections have probably gotten all the attention they deserve on this talk page!
--Jerzy•t 23:35, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
Mergewith Western Pacific Cordillera
- re article Western Pacific Cordillera
This page was redirected there and sent to PROD, which is weird.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.66.198.171 (talk) 10:58, 10 January 2009
Mergefrom Pacific Coast Ranges
- re article Pacific Coast Cordillera
The PCR article states its alternate name is Pacific Cordillera— Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.66.198.171 (talk) 10:58, 10 January 2009
Mergeto American Cordillera
- re article American Cordillera
That article states that this article's contents are a portion of that ones.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.66.198.171 (talk) 10:58, 10 January 2009
Drifting and crowding
I removed
- ... in Canada, the Rocky Mountains drift west and crowd against the Pacific Coast Ranges, ...
leaving, after correcting unnecessary awkwardness,
- This designation is peculiar to Canada because there intramontane plateaus are narrow and may be considered together with adjoining ranges.
I can't be sure whether what i removed refers to literal motion on geological time scale, or to figurative motion perceived by a northward-travelling observer. The latter phenomenon (perhaps reflecting just less motion separating the ranges in the north) seems obvious to the eye, so pending documentation of actual motion, i'm making it explicitly refer to the relative narrowness in the north, and awaiting verification of any motion on geo time scales.
--Jerzy•t 23:35, 25 September 2009 (UTC)