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>>68715975
I don’t know much about them either since I just copied from the worldbuilding site. It’s how the blob of mountains and plateaus along the American West Coast’s formed! Basically when an oceanic plate (the one to the north in this case) undergoes flat slab subduction it stretches the mountains into a wide volcanic front (as opposed to the Andes which is much narrower) with two distinct ridges (like the Cascades/Sierra Nevada and the Rockies) with a rugged plateau in between. From what I can tell it’s one of two ways that multiple mountain ranges can form to such great heights (the other one’s what made the Himalayas, which I assume is what’s going on in the east)
I don’t know what’s the implications yet beyond having more volcanoes but it probably determines what minerals I can mine!