GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch 3, 000 miles (4, 800 kilometers) in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico in the southwestern United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Rocky Mountains are a mountain range in the western United States. For as long as 3, 000 miles (4, 800 km), they stretch from New Mexico in the south through British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, to Alaska in the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Rockies are bordered on the east by the Great Plains and on the west by the Interior Plateau and Coast Mountains of Canada and the Columbia Plateau and Basin and Range Province of the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Western Rocky Mountains are a subset of the Rocky Mountain range, which runs from northern New Mexico to their terminus in the northern part of the province of British Columbia in Canada. Interestingly, the ranges within the Rockies are discontinuous and have their own unique geological histories.