Taconic orogeny information

The Taconic orogeny was a mountain building period that ended 440 million years ago (Ma) and affected most of modern-day New England. A great mountain...

carried rock debris downslope to be deposited in nearby lowlands. The Taconic orogeny ended after about 60 million years, but built much of the land mass...

much of what is now eastern North America named the "Taconic Orogeny". The range is part of the Taconic Allochthon, a local rock structure which traveled...

Africa. Taconic orogeny – Mountain-building period that affected most of New England Acadian orogeny – North American orogeny Alleghanian orogeny – Mountain-forming...

Geology has a page on the topic of: Orogeny Wikimedia Commons has media related to Orogeny. Maps of the Acadian and Taconic orogenies Antarctic Geology...

consisted of the Grenville and Taconic orogenies, which followed a rift/drift stage in the Neoproterozoic. The Acadian orogeny involved the collision of a...

The Taconic unconformity is a major unconformity created during the Taconic orogeny, exposed from eastern New York State to the Gaspe peninsula. The orogeny...

billion years: The Grenville orogeny began 1250 million years ago (Ma) and lasted for 270 million years. The Taconic orogeny began 450 Ma and lasted for...

total of four orogenies have affected the rocks of the Commonwealth including the Grenville orogeny, the Taconic orogeny, the Acadian orogeny, and the Appalachian...

southwestern Vermont Taconic orogeny, a great mountain building period within the New York Bight region in the United States Taconic Shores, New York, a...

this orogeny. In this definition, the Taconic and Acadian orogenies in what today is North America are included in the phases of the Caledonian orogeny. Some...

an episode of mountain-building called the Taconic orogeny. As the mountains raised by the Taconic orogeny were subsequently eroded, they produced the...

Avalonia. The ocean disappeared with the Acadian, Caledonian and Taconic orogenies, when these three continents joined to form one big landmass called...

thrusting during the Taconic Orogeny, though reactivation of the fault may have occurred during the middle Devonian Acadian Orogeny. The Champlain Thrust...

geologic boundary of hard metamorphosed terrain—the product of the Taconic orogeny—and the sandy, relatively flat alluvial plain of the upper continental...

strike-slip extension in the mountains formed by the Taconic orogeny, Salinic orogeny and Acadian orogeny, which created an area of subsidence in the Gulf...

correlative with the Taconic orogeny of New England, and referred to the unfamiliar and as-yet-unnamed iron-bearing rock as the 'taconic rock' or taconyte...

Trichophycus, etc.Taconic Orogeny in North America. Aravalli Range orogeny in Indian subcontinent. Beginning of Pan-African Orogeny, leading to the formation...

reorganization of tectonic plates centered on the amalgamation of Gondwana. The Taconic orogeny, a major mountain-building episode, was well under way in Cambrian...

was presumably associated with it, occurred during the end of the Taconic Orogeny in the late Ordovician period. The temporal association with this Ordovician...

Ordovician period (c. 475 - 450 million years ago (Ma)) as part of the Taconic Orogeny. These rocks are presently well exposed along the Connecticut River...

Ordovician period due to the erosion of mountains created during the Taconic orogeny. The wedge is thickest in a band running from New York State to Quebec...

formed as subsequent mountain building events such as the Taconic orogeny and Acadian orogeny led to additional sediment deposition. Ohio transitioned...

Mountains. During the early stages of this mountain building known as the Taconic orogeny, a piece of ocean crust from the Iapetus Ocean broke off and became...

are found in abundance in the deep wells throughout the State. The Taconic orogeny near the end of Ordovician time formed a high mountainous area east...

may be from the same event. The Grampian orogeny took place at close to the same time as the Taconic orogeny. In both cases, more extensive ophiolite...

tectonism during the Taconic orogeny. Later, Devonian-Mississippian metamorphism of these strata occurred during the Acadian orogeny and additional Pennsylvanian...