Nevadaplano

专有名词
美 /nəˌvædəˈplænoʊ/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. 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.
    — 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.

词源

Blend of Nevada + altiplano. Coined by American geoscientist Peter G. DeCelles in a 2004 paper in the American Journal of Science.
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