Sierra Madre Occidental


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Sierra Madre Oc·ci·den·tal

 (ŏk′sĭ-dĕn′təl, ōk′sē-dĕn-täl′)
A mountain range of northwest Mexico running parallel to the Pacific coastline and adjoining the Mexican plateau. It extends for about 1,610 km (1,000 mi) southward from the border of Arizona.
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Noun1.Sierra Madre Occidental - a mountain range in northwestern Mexico that runs south from Arizona parallel to the Pacific coastline
Mexico, United Mexican States - a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810
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The last magmatic activity, as in the rest of the Sierra Madre Occidental, consists of silicic ignimbrites and less basaltic lava flows clustered in two pulses of ~31.5-29 Ma and 24-20 Ma.
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The SMSP is endemic to Mexico, and its actual distribution is restricted to two disjunct ranges, approximately 800 km apart (Oliveras de Ita & Gomez de Silva, 2002; Oliveras de Ita & Rojas-Soto, 2006; Gallegos, 2014): one in the Transvolcanic Belt of Central Mexico (La Cima) near Mexico City and the other one in the Sierra Madre Occidental (Ejido Ojo de Agua El Cazador), near the city of Durango.
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