These older rocks, which were brought to the Earth’s surface by the flat-slab subduction during the Laramide Orogeny — a mountain building event about 70 to 40 million years ago — are ...

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The Rocky Mountain ranges we call home ... The USGS reported that an event known as the Laramide Orogeny occurred 70 million years ago, which is believed to have caused the formation of the ...

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A man is dead after being rescued from a popular Phoenix mountain hiking trail earlier this week. Reports of a hiker “experiencing a medical emergency" were first called in to the local fire ...

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PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A man has died after he was rescued from a Phoenix mountain hiking trail earlier this week. Around 9:30 a.m. on Monday, technical rescue teams from Phoenix and Tempe were ...