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Title: A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brooks, Leonard
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, this great landmass iswithin the temperate belt. The economic and thehuman conditions of North America will therefore bevery different from those of Africa, and will be morecomparable with those of Europe. A glance at the map will show that the continentcontains three great physical divisions— (i) The Western Highlands ; (ii) The lower Eastern Highlands and their marginalcoastal plains; (iii) The Lowlands, occupying the trough betweenthem.The Western Ilii^/iliinds.—These highlands form agreat cordillcran system of north-south running ranges,enclosing high plateaus, which in many respects is com-parable to the east and west highland belt whichstretches from Asia Minor to China (see p. 285). It ispart of the highland belt which forms the marginallands of the Pacific Ocean. The map shows that it isbroadest in the centre, where it occupies about one-third of the total width of the continent. The folded IllVSICAI, Fl.ATtlRIS i<i ^^ P7 -iJ^. j--•■-■••-j Unfolded plains pr
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The Western Cordilleraof young folded mountains,plateaux, fault blockmountains, volcanoes, etc. sedimentary rocksPlains of Denudation Residual MountainsThe thick dotted line marks theSotkhern limit reached by fee sheet Seal e y ioo icco icno Mil ft Fig. 95.—The cluef structural divisions of North America. 3^4 NORTH AMERICA mountain ranges forming the eastern and westernbuttresses of the system can easily be found on a mapby the help of Fig. 96, which also indicates the troughbetween the main mass and the coastal rans;;es. In

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