The Mississippian (/ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi.ən/ miss-ə-SIP-ee-ən, also known as Lower Carboniferous or Early Carboniferous) is a subperiod in the geologic timescale...
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Look up Mississippian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mississippian may refer to: Mississippian (geology), a subperiod of the Carboniferous period...
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treated as a full-fledged geologic period between the Mississippian and the Permian. In parts of Europe, the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian are one more-or-less...
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Antler orogeny (category Mississippian (geology))
orogeny ... took place during Mississippian (?) and early Pennsylvanian time. That abstract was followed in 1951 by his geologic map of the Antler Peak quadrangle...
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of relating strata to time) and geochronology (a scientific branch of geology that aims to determine the age of rocks). It is used primarily by Earth...
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that grows in the area. It is also called the "Mississippian Plateau," for the Mississippian geologic age in which it was formed. The Pennyroyal is bordered...
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Borden Formation (category Mississippian United States)
Indiana. The Edwardsville Formation is a geological structure in the Borden Group, of the Lower Mississippian sub system, (Osagean, late Tournaisian)....
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Mississippian, roughly between 400 and 300 million years ago. The sediment was primarily deep ocean limestones with some shale layers. Mississippian limestones...
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of three geologic eras: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Paleozoic rocks at the surface in Kansas are primarily from the Mississippian, Pennsylvanian...
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Catskill Mountains (redirect from Geology of the Catskill Mountains)
of the Acadian Mountains was occurring during the Devonian and early Mississippian period (395 to 325 million years ago). Over that time, thousands of...
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Unconformity (redirect from Unconformity (geology))
underlying Mississippian Borden Formation and overlying Pennsylvanian Sharon Conglomerate, near Jackson, Ohio There is a billion-year gap in the geologic record...
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Viséan (redirect from Middle Mississippian)
Visian is an age in the ICS geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the second stage of the Mississippian, the lower subsystem of...
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The geology of the Grand Canyon area includes one of the most complete and studied sequences of rock on Earth. The nearly 40 major sedimentary rock layers...
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The geology of the Rocky Mountains is that of a discontinuous series of mountain ranges with distinct geological origins. Collectively these make up the...
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Ozarks (redirect from Geology of the Ozarks)
more rugged. Although the Springfield formation's surface is primarily Mississippian limestone and chert, the Salem Plateau is made of older Ordovician dolomites...
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Cumberland Plateau (redirect from Geology of the Cumberland Plateau)
Cumberland Plateau and larger Appalachian Plateau are of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian geological age, composed of near-shore sediments washed westward...
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Carboniferous (category Geological periods)
the Carboniferous is often treated as two separate geological periods, the earlier Mississippian and the later Pennsylvanian. The name Carboniferous...
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The geology of the Appalachians dates back more than 1.2 billion years to the Mesoproterozoic era when two continental cratons collided to form the supercontinent...
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Doughnut Formation (category Geologic formations of Colorado)
The Doughnut Formation is an Upper Mississippian geologic unit in the western United States. Fish fossils have been discovered in shale outcrops of this...
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Salem Limestone (category Mississippian Illinois)
Formation is a geologic formation in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri. It preserves fossils dating back to the Mississippian subperiod. This...
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Permian (redirect from Permian (geology))
the United States Geological Survey until 1941 considering the Permian a subsystem of the Carboniferous equivalent to the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian...
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The Geology of Pennsylvania consists of six distinct physiographic provinces, three of which are subdivided into different sections. Each province has...
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Historical geology or palaeogeology is a discipline that uses the principles and methods of geology to reconstruct the geological history of Earth. Historical...
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Serpukhovian (category Mississippian geochronology)
The Serpukhovian is in the ICS geologic timescale the uppermost stage or youngest age of the Mississippian, the lower subsystem of the Carboniferous....
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Bangor Limestone (category Geologic formations of Alabama)
The Bangor Limestone is a fossil bearing Mississippian geologic formation in northern Alabama. It is a shallow marine carbonate formation in the Chesterian...
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Mission Canyon Formation (category Geology of Montana)
The Mission Canyon Formation is a geologic formation in Montana and Wyoming. It preserves fossils from the Mississippian period. List of fossiliferous stratigraphic...
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sandstone in west Texas, and some shale strata from the Devonian and Mississippian periods. The Ouachita Mountains were uplifted across the state during...
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Permian Basin (North America) (category Carboniferous geology of New Mexico)
North America and Gondwana (South America and Africa) between the late Mississippian through the Permian. The Permian Basin also includes formations that...
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Madison Group (category Mississippian Series)
Madison Limestone is a thick sequence of mostly carbonate rocks of Mississippian age in the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains areas of the western United...
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Cretaceous (redirect from Cretaceous (geology))
The Cretaceous (IPA: /krɪˈteɪʃəs/ krih-TAY-shəss) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and...
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