Talk:North American Cordillera

message: Western Cordillera →  – See above: North American Cordillera is a less ambiguous name than Western Cordillera (which can refer to North America, Philippines, or Borneo) (per WP:PRECISE). Further, North American Cordillera is just as common in Google Books as Western Cordillera. (per WP:UCN) Thanks! —hike395 (talk) 20:50, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Vsmith (talk) 00:08, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It has a long time since I last looked at this article and the first thing I noticed is the name change. I disagree with the current name because North American Cordillera would seem to include all of North America. There is also the Arctic Cordillera of Northern Canada, which isn't part of the same cordillera as this one. Western Cordillera (North America) is a better term for this cordillera. Volcanoguy 08:14, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If you look at how the term is used in books, "North American Cordillera"&tbs=bks:1&lr=lang_en, it seems unambiguous to me. It is referring to the mountains on the western side of the continent, not the (quite wonderful) Arctic Cordillera up by Baffin Island. —hike395 (talk) 09:52, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: The main problem I'm having right now with the article is figuring out how to describe the Columbia Mountains.  This Wikipedia article classifies all the mountain ranges of this cordillera into three parts: coast mountains in the west, Nevadan mountains in the middle, and Laramide mountains in the east.  But the Columbia Mountains are turning out to be a problem that could also mess up how we classify mountains further north.  From what I can tell, the Columbia Mountains are a northern extension of some mountain ranges that are definitely considered part of the Rockies.  But, in Holland's book about the physiography of Canada, the Columbia Mountains are not only considered to be west of the Rockies, but also west of the "Eastern System" of mountain ranges.  Holland's reason seems to be that the "Rocky Trench" in Canada separates the Columbia Mountains from the Canadian Rockies.  When I get a chance, I'd like to study this further, but don't have time right now.Anythingyouwant (talk) 18:08, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have overhauled the article.  Hope you like it.  Cheers.  (By the way, I am commenting in reply to myself here.)108.18.174.123 (talk) 16:46, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Are Columbia Mountains in the eastern part of the Cordillera like the Rockies?

message: User:Typhoonstar created an article, The canadian cordillera, that consists of "THe Canadian Cordillera is one of seven physical regions in Canada. It is broken down into 3 parts. These are: The Taiga Cordillera, The Montane Cordillera, and the Boreal Cordillera". I was going to move a mention of these three areas into this article before redirecting that article to here (which I decided to do because I found that there's already a Canadian Cordillera that redirects here), but I don't know where that info would go, since the Canadian portion of the geology is itself split up among several sections. Is this a correct breakdown of some portion of the Canadian system, and can someone help by reflecting them in the article? —Largo Plazo (talk) 16:49, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That's because he was wrong; his name is familiar to me but I haven't looked at the history (on whichever page, long ago) about these areas, which are Environment Canada Ecozones and not actual physical geography, they have a different focus (link them and see); see my reply just now to Talk:Boreal Cordillera about this and more.Skookum1 (talk) 14:08, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian sections 

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