Salmon Arm, BC
Canada
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Posted - 02/14/2011 : 4:18 PM
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Anyone remember those commercials with the beer bottles spawning up the creek?
Weren't those the Wild Rainiers? Oh wait, they had legs and were grazing up in the meadows...I loved it when the hunters were trying to "lasso" them with giant bottle openers. |
Edited by - pmjwright on 02/14/2011 4:18 PM |
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Salmon Arm, BC
Canada
894 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2011 : 4:25 PM
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Besides, the Rockies are completely different from everything west of the Rocky Mountain Trench - for starters, we [i]actually belong to the continent[i]. You accretions belong as your own province.
Not entirely, Rachelo. The Columbia Mountains--Purcells, Cariboos, and a good chunk (the best chunk!) of the Selkirks and Monashees--Ominecas and Cassiars also belong to the continent. As geologist and author Ben Gadd writes, "Were it not for the Rocky Mountain Trench, the entire region would still be one continuous mountain range." (Interestingly, as soon as you cross the border, the Selkirk and Purcells are lumped in as part of the Rockies despite the Trench--Americans actually have it right!!). Some rock groups and formations are found on both sides of the Trench--the Purcell Supergroup in particular, which forms most of the Purcells as well as the Rockies of Waterton/Glacier and much of northern Montana and Idaho.
It's the REST of BC that's accretionary.
Hmmm, maybe this explains why Albertans are buying up most of the property in the East Kootenays etc--they intuitively know it's "theirs"!!
PS. Does this also mean we can add these ranges to the "Name that Peak" contest?! |
Edited by - pmjwright on 02/21/2011 1:41 PM |
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Name That Peak
