Transverse Ranges orogeny

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The Transverse Ranges orogeny is the mountain-building event responsible for creating Southern California’s east–west-trending Transverse Ranges through complex tectonic compression and faulting along the Pacific–North American plate boundary.


Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Topatopa Mountains
orogeny

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