Amerikanische Kordilleren

Amerikanische Kordilleren

Die Kordilleren und ihre Hauptketten am Westrand der beiden Amerikas
Die Kordilleren und ihre Hauptketten am Westrand der beiden Amerikas

Die Kordilleren und ihre Hauptketten am Westrand der beiden Amerikas

Höchster Gipfel Aconcagua (6961 m)
Lage Amerika
Typ Faltengebirge mit Vulkanismus (Pazifischer Feuerring)

Als Amerikanische Kordilleren (von spanisch cordillera: „Gebirgskette“; häufig nur Kordilleren genannt) wird die nahezu ununterbrochene Kette von Kordilleren an der pazifischen Westküste des amerikanischen Doppelkontinentes bezeichnet.

Mit einer Länge von rund 18.000 Kilometern (Breite bis zu 2.500 Kilometer) stellen sie das längste Faltengebirge der Welt dar; es reicht von Alaska bis Feuerland. Im geologischen Sinn gelten die Gebirge des Inselbogens der Südlichen Sandwichinseln und der Antarktischen Halbinsel als Fortsetzung der Kordilleren.[1]

Eng verbunden sind die Amerikanischen Kordilleren mit dem Pazifischen Feuerring, dessen Ostteil sie bilden: Viele der hohen Gipfel sind Vulkane, ganze Ketten sind vom Vulkanismus geprägt. Das Gebirgssystem entstand durch die Subduktion der Farallon-Platte (einschließlich ihrer heutigen Überreste Cocos- und Nazca-Platte) unter die Nordamerikanische, die Karibische und die Südamerikanische Platte.

Erdbeben Magnitude > 3,5 (1963–1998): die Kordilleren als Teil der globalen Erdbebengürtel. Quelle: NASA

Gliederung

Nordamerika

Die nordamerikanischen Kordilleren lassen sich grob als zwei parallel verlaufende Hauptketten betrachten, die Pazifischen Küstengebirge im weiten Sinne und die Gebirge der laramischen Auffaltung weiter im Landesinnern sowie die dazwischen liegenden Intermontanen Plateaus. Die folgende Gliederung berücksichtigt nur eine Auswahl der größten geomorphologischen Haupteinheiten.

Westliche Kordilleren

(Die Aleutenkette bildet im Südwesten Alaskas die Fortsetzung des Feuerrings, wird aber nicht zu den Kordilleren gerechnet.)

Östliche Kordilleren

Mittelamerikanische Kordilleren

Südamerika

Die Kordilleren Südamerikas sind die Anden. Sie bestehen je nach Region aus zwei bis drei Hauptketten: Cordillera Occidental (Westliche Kordillere), Cordillera Central (Zentralkordillere) und Cordillera Oriental (Östliche Kordillere). Dazu kommen im Norden und Süden Ausläufer.

Siehe auch

Einzelnachweise

  1. The North American Cordillera: A Color Shaded-Relief Map in Oblique Mercator Projection About the Pacific-North America Pole of Rotation, Scale Circa 1:5,000,000. In: pubs.usgs.gov. Abgerufen am 2. November 2024 (englisch).

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