Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Which of the following was NOT TRUE of the Cordilleran orogeny?

A) The Cordilleran mountain building was active from the Jurassic through the Cenezoic.


B) The Cordilleran orogeny includes the Sonoma orogeny.


C) The Cordilleran orogeny is caused by a convergent plate boundary.


D) The Cordilleran orogeny formed great batholiths such as the Sierra Nevada batholith.|||A) I don't think it began as early as the jurassic but it did begin before the Cenozoic or Paleocene.|||A) The Cordilleran mountain building was active from the Jurassic through the Cenezoic.


It was active during the Paleocene time.

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