Olympic Mountains, NW USA an outlying buckle in the subduction zone

lympic Mountains is a small (50-75 mi), cleanly-defined, roughly circular and radial, even slightly spiraled local range (barely) on the far northwest coast of the USA.   It dominates the interior of .  The Olympics are noted for their high degree of ruggedness, and for their high visibility from nearby urban and conurbated populations.  Many Seattlites …