Multiple Choice
Mountain-building activity in the present-day Rocky Mountains occurred during which phase of the Cordilleran orogeny?
A) Sonoma orogeny
B) Laramide orogeny
C) Nevadan orogeny
D) Sevier orogeny
E) Franciscan orogeny
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