Extent (orange regions) of the Grenville orogeny, after Tollo et al. (2004) and Darabi (2004)
The Grenville orogeny was a long-lived Mesoproterozoic mountain-building event associated with the assembly of the supercontinent Rodinia. Its record is a prominent orogenic belt which spans a significant portion of the North American continent, from Labrador to Mexico, as well as to Scotland.
Grenville orogenic crust of mid-late Mesoproterozoic age (c.1250—980 Ma) is found worldwide, but generally only events which occurred on the southern and eastern margins of Laurentia are recognized under the "Grenville" name.[1] These orogenic events are also known as the Kibaran orogeny in Africa and the Dalslandian orogeny in Western Europe.
^Tollo, Richard P.; Louise Corriveau; James McLelland; Mervin J. Bartholomew (2004). "Proterozoic tectonic evolution of the Grenville orogen in North America: An introduction". In Tollo, Richard P.; Corriveau, Louise; McLelland, James; et al. (eds.). Proterozoic tectonic evolution of the Grenville orogen in North America. Geological Society of America Memoir. Vol. 197. Boulder, CO. pp. 1–18. ISBN 978-0-8137-1197-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
The Grenvilleorogeny was a long-lived Mesoproterozoic mountain-building event associated with the assembly of the supercontinent Rodinia. Its record...
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modern North America) in a mountain building episode known as the Grenvilleorogeny. During this time the sedimentary rock was changed into metamorphic...
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series of orogenies within a long-lived convergent boundary along southern Laurentia that ended with the ca. 1200–1000 Mya Grenvilleorogeny during the...
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the GrenvilleOrogeny to the east which in part overlaps the timing of the rift development. Later compressive forces from the GrenvilleOrogeny likely...
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basement complex (Grenvilleorogeny of Proterozoic age), the Paleozoic Appalachian orogeny in Maine, and the currently active Himalayan orogeny. The leucogranite...
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