cordilleran
Adjective
Meaning
cordilleran (not comparable)
Relating to a cordillera.
Phrases with the word
Examples
Both the Columbia River and Colorado River rise far inland near the easternmost members of the Cordilleran system, and flow through plateaus and intermontaine basins to the ocean.
The Puget Sound was shaped by the Puget Lobe portion of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet that was part of the Fraser Glaciation that shaped much of the Montana, Idaho, Washington, British Columbia, the Yukon Territory, and Alaska.
The Cordilleran ice sheet once covered large portions of western North America from Alaska to Washington state and western Montana.
Their dunes are on the downwind (SE) side of the depressions, as would be expected from prevailing winds off the Cordilleran Ice Sheet.
The Cordilleran system on the western side of the continent is lofty, broad and complicated having two branches, the Rocky Mountain System and the Pacific Mountain System.