Was this mountain building process an Andean type mountain building event, a collisional event, or both; and what might have been subducted to produce the over-thickened oceanic crust that drove the orogeny?
What will be an ideal response?
The mountain building process is a combination of the Andean and collisional processes; the mountains are basically subduction related, but the collision with a subductable thickened crust produced contraction of interior North America.
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