Talk:Coast Mountains
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The Coastal Mountains are located from Del Norte County down to the Mexican Border. The geological theory is that approxmately 250 million years ago, the Pacifican Plate and the North American Plate had a head-on collision, and the Pacifican Plate had slipped underneath the North American Plate, heating, melting, and crushing as it reached the Earth's interior. The Coastal Mountains is a countinuously linked trek that stretches from the southern Oregon State down south, with a exception of a break at the Golden Gate Bidge.
- NOT the same Coast Mountains; note the -al on Coastal Mountains, which by your description is much farther south; part of the Pacific Coast Range(s) and the Pacific Cordillera, to be sure, but not part of the Coast Mountains, the southern limit of which is the Fraser River, just north of Washington State.Skookum1 05:52, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
- re above see also Coast Ranges and Pacific Coast Range and comments about nomenclature somewhere, I think, on one of those two talk pages.Skookum1 (talk) 21:48, 22 November 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Caren Range
What about the Caren Range (http://www.carenrange.com/)? --Bill.albing 19:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
- Nothing to stop there being a separate article on it, which is why I redlinked it; technically the Caren Range is part of the Pacific Ranges complex of the Coast Mountains, and in some classifications part of the Front Ranges (not to be confused with the Front Ranges of the Rockies, where that link probably goes) which also includes the North Shore Mountains and other lower ranges between the deeper, higher main bloc of the Coast Mountains and the sea. The Caren warrants a separate article partly because of the controversy/news surrounding it; other large named ranges within the Pacific Ranges do not (yet) have articles, e.g. the Clendinning Range is a short stub partly because there's nothing much to write about them...oh, there's a stub on it....well, an alternate example would be the Tochquonyalla Range, part of the Kitimat Ranges, which is the divide where the Kemano powerhouse tunnels pierce the range from Ootsa Lake. I think if a Caren Range article/stub gets written, there's probably a Category:Coast Mountains to attach to it; or Category:Subranges of the Coast Mountains could be created, if not already extant. Skookum1 (talk) 21:45, 22 November 2007 (UTC).
