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>>>The Rocky Mountains formed after the Atlantic opened; I think the Andes did too, as did Japan and all those Pacific islands that have volcanic origins.<<< Although a lot of Japan is Volcanic, there are also a diverse collection of sediments — some as old as Silurian. Don't know whether these are exotic terrannes or what, but Japan is definitely not a simple volcanic entity like Iceland or Hawaii. Same thing for New Zealand incidentally.