re: #299 CyanSnowHawk

As I was driving across the Rockies last Sunday, I was wondering about the process that created them. That’s just a little freaky that you answered it on the first day I spent any significant time here since then.

LOL! Cool!

The Laramide Orogeny is the name of the event that formed the Rockies. Frictional coupling between the Fallaron slab and North America generated massive crustal shortening (like tens to hundreds of kilometers) as giant low angle thrust faults stacked up sheets of rock on top of one another. My structures class is about over, and I have absolutely loved it!