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| The Pyrenees: The Pyrenees (highest point 3404 m), extends from the Bay of Biscay (west) to the Gulf of Lyon (east); Spain lies south of the range, France is to the north, and Andorra is entirely within the range near the eastern snow patch. The Pyrenees began forming about 80 million years ago, during early stages of Eurasian-African plate collision; in contrast, the Cordillera Cantabrica, along the north coast of Spain, is a more deeply eroded ancient mountain chain that was uplifted roughly 320 million years ago. There is a long history of mining in the Pyrenees -- tin, tungsten, talc, fluorite, barium and gold, and petroleum is produced from the adjacent Aquitaine basin of France. |
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