| 1. | The Intermontane Islands were too big to sink beneath the continent.
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| 2. | Most of the province and its intermontane valleys have an arid climate.
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| 3. | The compression of the collision created fractures and folds in the Intermontane Belt.
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| 4. | The subduction zone of the Intermontane Plate shut down, ending the volcanic arc.
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| 5. | The Intermontane Plateaus come to an end at the Cascade Range and the Sierra Nevada.
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| 6. | The Intermontane and Insular Coalfields of British Columbia also contain deposits of Cretaceous bituminous coal.
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| 7. | Most of the lower slopes and intermontane basins of the range are covered with olive groves.
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| 8. | Now the Middle Magdalena basin is an intermontane basin situated between the uplifted Central and Eastern Cordilleras.
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| 9. | This zone includes the lower slopes of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Central and most of the intermontane valleys.
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| 10. | The main Central Otago centres, such as Cromwell, are found in the intermontane basins between the block mountains.
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