The land that Good Hope National Park lies on first began to shape around 200 million years ago with the breakup of Pangea. Good Hope National Park lies in the Canadian Landform of the Western Cordilleran; this started forming about 80 million years ago. This is where the Atlantic Ocean began to open in the east, and the North American continent began a long, slow drift in a northwesterly direction. The continent then collided and amalgamated with the several land masses located accross the ancient Pacific Ocean which created the mountains that we are familiar with today (along the western edge of the continent). The Pacific Plate subducted under the North American plate which caused faulting and volcanic activity which in the end created the Western Cordillera. The Park lies near the Rocky Mountains; they are composed mainly of sedimentary rock due to the folding and faulting. Today, the park's landscape is considered to be very rugged and is covered with lakes and forests. The area also has a wide range of vegetation types.
Natural Resources: The natural resources of the Cordillera are forestry (biggest industry in the region), agriculture, mining (iron, lead, zinc, silver, copper and nickel)
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