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I don't see the relation between the Columbia River Plateau and the Interior Plateau. I have lived in Washington all of my life and am actively interested in the geology of the state, but i have not hear of the Columbia plateau being considered part of the Interior Plateau of British Columbia. I would recommend against merging these articles. Kevmin 03:47, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I also suggest against the merge of the Interior Plateau and Columbia River Plateau, but I do agree with the merge of the Interior Plateau and History of the Interior Plateau.
At present all Interior links redirect to this article, in the context of the British Columbia Interior or Interior of British Columbia. This is a different context than the purely geographic-feature nature of this article, so I'm proposing a new article on "The Interior" be created; an italicized dab at the start of the page could say for the Interior region of British Columbia see Interior of British Columbia; for the Interior of Washington see Eastern Washington (or Columbia Plateau?). Skookum1 21:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Edited the location of the plateau from between the Great Basin and the Pacific Ocean to between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Coast Ranges.
The Great Basin is south of the Interior Plateau; the Rocky Mountains arc from east to northwest north of the Interior Plateau. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NCDane ( talk • contribs) 01:01, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
The intro is still as it was before the addition of material on the Columbia Plateau, i.e. ending on the south with the southward extensions of the Thompson Plateau and Okanagan Highland into Washington; I'd thought when first composing this article that "Interior Plateau" was a Canadian-only designation so hadn't presumed to write in the US portions of it, as User:Murderbike and others have since done. Which is all fine and dandy, and noting also taht we need a wider-scope map, maybe showing the Fraser/Thompson/Columbia/Snake Plateau divisions on it (unless the Snake is a subdivision of the Columbia, I'm not clear on that...), here's a copy-paste of teh current intro, plus a few changes:
That's for starters; I omitted a second sentence describing the Interior Mountains which would get too cumbersome if fully re-detailed; also in there somewhere the putative inclusion of the Quesnel, Shuswap and Okanagan Highlands, and I didn't bother listing hte many named subranges of the Fraser Plateau, not for the intro anyway. Re the mention fo the Rockies, I'm unclear as to the actual named ranges on the eastsern flank of hte Columbia Plateau, the Selkirks and Salish (or is it the Cabinets) on the northern part; is it the Clearwater Mountains to their south? Naming "the Rockies", which those are considered part of in the US reckoning (whereas teh Selkirks in BC are not) seems too vague, it would be better to specify the ranges; and I put Oregon in there; "North of the Great Basin" got taken out in some edit, but it should be in the area description, following the "wahts' the north" I'd think. Anyway I'll leave this for now, hoping an American editor will tweak what I've put together; before I wiki-leave again I'm going to try and straighten out Fraser Plateau, which was miswritten (by me) and I haven't had time/inclination to fix it.....but fixing htis was a precurosr to that, so.... Skookum1 ( talk) 00:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Almost the entire history section needs to be rewritten. It is largely false and isn't consistent with any current or past publications or gray literature.
Just to note that the coords I placed to make AnomeBot happy are from BCGNIS ( "Interior Plateau". BC Geographical Names.) and do not reflect the wider definition which may include Washingont-Idaho-Oregon (but which I still haven't gotten a clear answer to, despite the presence of some content relating to the Columbia Plateau). The coordinates may have to be adjusted, arbitrarily, if the definition is widened from the one used by the BC Govt/Holland. Thoughts please if any.... Skookum1 ( talk) 03:10, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
What is the altitude of the plateau? Geo Swan ( talk) 16:04, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
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I don't see the relation between the Columbia River Plateau and the Interior Plateau. I have lived in Washington all of my life and am actively interested in the geology of the state, but i have not hear of the Columbia plateau being considered part of the Interior Plateau of British Columbia. I would recommend against merging these articles. Kevmin 03:47, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I also suggest against the merge of the Interior Plateau and Columbia River Plateau, but I do agree with the merge of the Interior Plateau and History of the Interior Plateau.
At present all Interior links redirect to this article, in the context of the British Columbia Interior or Interior of British Columbia. This is a different context than the purely geographic-feature nature of this article, so I'm proposing a new article on "The Interior" be created; an italicized dab at the start of the page could say for the Interior region of British Columbia see Interior of British Columbia; for the Interior of Washington see Eastern Washington (or Columbia Plateau?). Skookum1 21:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Edited the location of the plateau from between the Great Basin and the Pacific Ocean to between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Coast Ranges.
The Great Basin is south of the Interior Plateau; the Rocky Mountains arc from east to northwest north of the Interior Plateau. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NCDane ( talk • contribs) 01:01, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
The intro is still as it was before the addition of material on the Columbia Plateau, i.e. ending on the south with the southward extensions of the Thompson Plateau and Okanagan Highland into Washington; I'd thought when first composing this article that "Interior Plateau" was a Canadian-only designation so hadn't presumed to write in the US portions of it, as User:Murderbike and others have since done. Which is all fine and dandy, and noting also taht we need a wider-scope map, maybe showing the Fraser/Thompson/Columbia/Snake Plateau divisions on it (unless the Snake is a subdivision of the Columbia, I'm not clear on that...), here's a copy-paste of teh current intro, plus a few changes:
That's for starters; I omitted a second sentence describing the Interior Mountains which would get too cumbersome if fully re-detailed; also in there somewhere the putative inclusion of the Quesnel, Shuswap and Okanagan Highlands, and I didn't bother listing hte many named subranges of the Fraser Plateau, not for the intro anyway. Re the mention fo the Rockies, I'm unclear as to the actual named ranges on the eastsern flank of hte Columbia Plateau, the Selkirks and Salish (or is it the Cabinets) on the northern part; is it the Clearwater Mountains to their south? Naming "the Rockies", which those are considered part of in the US reckoning (whereas teh Selkirks in BC are not) seems too vague, it would be better to specify the ranges; and I put Oregon in there; "North of the Great Basin" got taken out in some edit, but it should be in the area description, following the "wahts' the north" I'd think. Anyway I'll leave this for now, hoping an American editor will tweak what I've put together; before I wiki-leave again I'm going to try and straighten out Fraser Plateau, which was miswritten (by me) and I haven't had time/inclination to fix it.....but fixing htis was a precurosr to that, so.... Skookum1 ( talk) 00:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Almost the entire history section needs to be rewritten. It is largely false and isn't consistent with any current or past publications or gray literature.
Just to note that the coords I placed to make AnomeBot happy are from BCGNIS ( "Interior Plateau". BC Geographical Names.) and do not reflect the wider definition which may include Washingont-Idaho-Oregon (but which I still haven't gotten a clear answer to, despite the presence of some content relating to the Columbia Plateau). The coordinates may have to be adjusted, arbitrarily, if the definition is widened from the one used by the BC Govt/Holland. Thoughts please if any.... Skookum1 ( talk) 03:10, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
What is the altitude of the plateau? Geo Swan ( talk) 16:04, 15 May 2009 (UTC)