Geology of the Rocky Mountains Japan, Indonesia and the Aleutians; others are fragments of oceanic crust obducted onto the continental margin while others represent small isolated mid-oceanic islands. Magma generated above the subducting slab rose into the North American continental crust about inland. Great arc-shaped volcanic mountain ranges, known as the Sierran Arc, grew as lava and ash spewed out of dozens of individual volcanoes. Beneath the surface, great masses of molten rock were injected and hardened in place. For 270 million years, the effects of plate collisions were focused very near the edge of the North American plate boundary, far to the west of
...Earth to the Dandy Warhols... ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols... ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols... is the sixth studio album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols, recorded in 2008 and released on May 19, 2008 and is the first album released on their self-founded Beat the World Records label, after leaving Capitol Records in 2007. The album continues in a similar electro-rock style to 2003's "Welcome to the Monkey House", following the psychedelic guitar-rock of 2005's "Odditorium or Warlords of Mars". One single, "Mission Control", was released from the album. The album continues in a similar electro-rock style to 2003's "Welcome to the