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CORDILLERE [3 records]

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Record 1 2021-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
Universal entry(ies)
PH-15
classification system code, see observation
OBS

A region of the Philippines.

OBS

PH-15: code recognized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
PH-15
classification system code, see observation
OBS

Région des Philippines.

OBS

PH-15 : code reconnu par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
  • Biogeography
DEF

Pertaining to the mountains of western North America.

CONT

Cordilleran skarns have developed preferentially in the lowest thick limestone bed of an Upper Proterozoic to Carboniferous cratonal or pericratonic sedimentary sequence.

PHR

Cordilleran region.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
  • Biogéographie
CONT

Les skarns de la Cordillère se sont formés de préférence dans une épaisse couche de calcaire occupant la position la plus basse d'une séquence sédimentaire cratonique ou péricratonique du Protérozoïque supérieur-Carbonifère.

OBS

cordillérien : Voir la rubrique «arnica» dans la source MAFLO - Flore laurentienne, Frère Marie-Victorin, 1964.

OBS

Région de la Cordillère.

Spanish

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Record 3 2007-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

[A] long parallel range of rugged mountains, an extensive feature in the Americas and Eurasia.

OBS

(from old Spanish "cordilla", "cord" or "little rope").

OBS

More specifically, the term denotes the various ranges of the Andes of South America, and less frequently, any similar mountain range in the "world ridge", which rims the Pacific Ocean. In Colombia and Venezuela the cordilleras are named, according to position, Cordillera Occidental, Central, and Oriental.

OBS

In North America the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and the mountains between them are collectively known as the Cordilleras, and the entire area has been termed the Cordilleran region. Cordilleras are quite small in Africa and occur only as interrupted islands in Australasia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
CONT

Les cordillères correspondent à des panneaux de socle hercynien soulevés, supportant en discordance plusieurs milliers de mètres de sédiments secondaires et parfois tertiaires.

OBS

Cordillère : Sens courant [avec un «C» majuscule] : Chaîne de montagnes (dans les pays de langue espagnole). [Par exemple] «Cordillère des Andes».

OBS

[En] géographie, cordillère (avec une minuscule) : Chaîne de montagnes (dans une région quelconque). [Par exemple : ] «La cordillère alpine».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tectónica
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
DEF

Cadena montañosa alargada y estrecha.

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