This web-site contains files showing simple cross sections of one or more states in selected North American orogenies (mountain building events). Major structures, elements, and rock units are shown. The orogenies covered here include the Wopmay, Taconic, Acadian, Alleghanian, Palisades, Antler, Ancestral Rockies, Sonoman, Sevier and Laramide.
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This resource is referenced here:Subject:
Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics,
Structural Geology,
Historical Geology
Resource Type:
Scientific Resources:Collection,
Overview/Reference Work,
Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional, College Lower (13-14)
Focus on the Cretaceous: Paleogeography, Magmatism, Tectonics
Theme:
Teach the Earth:Course Topics:Structural Geology,
Teach the Earth:Teaching Topics:Early Earth,
Plate Tectonics
