Meaning of Nevadaplano | Babel Free

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A high-elevation orogenic plateau that once existed during the Tertiary period in what is modern North America’s Great Basin, analogous to today’s high-elevation South American altiplano.

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“At the peak of its development, the retroarc side of the Cordillera was divided into five tectonomorphic zones, including from west to east the Luning-Fencemaker thrust belt; the central Nevada (or Eureka) thrust belt; a high-elevation plateau (the “Nevadaplano”); the topographically rugged Sevier fold-thrust belt; and the Laramide zone of intraforeland basement uplifts and basins.”

“Terming this now-exhumed Late Cretaceous–Eocene hinterland metamorphic belt the Nevadaplano, he estimated that its average elevation probably exceeded 3 km.”

“During the Late Cretaceous, central Nevada may have⟳ been a high elevation plateau, the Nevadaplano; some geodynamic models of the western US require⟳ thickened crust and high elevations during the Mesozoic to drive⟳ the subsequent tectonic events of the Cenozoic while other models do not.”

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