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About half of US territory is occupied by mountain ranges, plains and plateaus of the Cordillera vast, stretching from north to south across the west of the country, from Alaska to California and New Mexico. The length of the mountain range of about 1,700 km with a maximum width of up to 1,600 km (nearly one-third of the United States, the rest - the Appalachian Mountains and other old, often weathered to a state of high hills or plateau). In a complex system of ridges and intermountain basins of the Cordillera quite clearly divided into three zones - Eastern, or belt of the Rocky Mountains (the mountains of Sacramento, Sangre de Cristo, Front Range, Big Horn and others, the highest point - Mount Elbert, 4399 m); Western, or Pacific belt (Coast Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, the Cascade Mountains, Baja California, etc., the highest point - Mount Whitney, 4418 meters) and the so-called inner belt, which consists of high plateaus (Colorado, Utah, and others.) and individual mountain ranges separated by deep basins ("Park") and valleys (where is the lowest point of the continent - Death Valley - 85 m). ET circumscription of the Rocky Mountains in the southern part of the Coast Ranges (San Andreas Fault) there is a high seismic activity, and in the Cascade Mountains have active and dormant volcanoes (Mount Rainier, Hood, Olympus and others.).
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