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    The Acadian orogeny is a long-lasting mountain building event which began in the Middle Devonian, reaching a climax in the Late Devonian. It was active...
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    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...
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    Alleghanian orogeny). The third mountain-building event was the Acadian orogeny which occurred between 375 and 359 million years ago. The Acadian orogeny was...
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  • Chevette Acadian French, a French dialect Acadian flycatcher, a small insect-eating bird Acadian orogeny, a middle Paleozoic deformation in geology Acadian Peninsula...
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    Caledonian/Acadian belts at the end of the Caledonian orogeny (Early Devonian). Present-day coastlines are in gray. The Finnmarkian orogeny affected northern...
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    Taconic orogeny – Mountain-building period that affected most of New England Acadian orogeny – North American orogeny Alleghanian orogeny – Mountain-forming...
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    the Caledonian folding or in North America as an early phase in the Acadian orogeny. In the Carboniferous, the new continent and another terrane, Armorica...
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    mountain-building began, the Acadian orogeny. In the southern Appalachians of Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina, the Taconic orogeny was not associated with...
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    Gondwana approached; these include the Acadian Orogeny in North America and the beginning of the Variscan Orogeny in Europe. These early collisions preceded...
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    eventually covered with lava during the Paleozoic, peaking during the Acadian orogeny. During the Carboniferous period, about 340 million years ago, New...
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    conjunction with the Strathmore syncline to the south-east during the Acadian orogeny in a transpressive regime that caused the uplift of the Grampian block...
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    The Alpine orogeny or Alpide orogeny[dubious – discuss] is an orogenic phase in the Late Mesozoic (Eoalpine) and the current Cenozoic that has formed...
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    Names in 1893. Katahdin is part of a laccolith that formed in the Acadian orogeny when an island arc collided with eastern North America approximately...
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    of Euramerica persists after forming in the Caledonian orogeny. Beginning of Acadian Orogeny for Anti-Atlas Mountains of North Africa, and Appalachian...
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    Variscan proper. The Variscan was contemporaneous with the Acadian and Alleghenian orogeny in the United States and Canada, responsible for forming the...
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    lasted for 10 million years. The Acadian orogeny began 375 Ma and lasted 50 million years. The Alleghanian orogeny began 325 Ma and lasted 65 million...
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    The collision reached its end during the Early Devonian, part of the Acadian Orogeny with the final closure of Iapetus and the intrusion of late orogenic...
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    collision started around 375 Mya, which coincides with timing of the Acadian orogeny that formed the Appalachian Mountains. Though Duke stone contains no...
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    sandstone, indicating a large-scale terrestrial deposition during the Acadian orogeny. Many beds are cyclical in nature, preserving the record of a dynamic...
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    Cambrian period by volcanic ash. During the Ordovician period, the Acadian orogeny — the collision of Laurentia, Gondwanaland, and Avalonia — caused the...
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    tectonism during the Taconic orogeny. Later, Devonian-Mississippian metamorphism of these strata occurred during the Acadian orogeny and additional Pennsylvanian...
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    Baltica and Avalonia. The ocean disappeared with the Acadian, Caledonian and Taconic orogenies, when these three continents joined to form one big landmass...
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    May 2017. Ettensohn, F (1985). "The Catskill Delta complex and the Acadian Orogeny". The Catskill Delta. Geological Society of America. 39-49. doi:10...
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  • 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 of...
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    Avalon. Meguma then became shortened during the Acadian orogeny but Avalon somehow escaped those Acadian deformations. Geologically this area is of interest...
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  • These rocks were metamorphosed and deformed during the Acadian Orogeny and the Alleghenian Orogeny. Robert H. Moench and John N. Aleinikoff, "Stratigraphy...
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  • formed as subsequent mountain building events such as the Taconic orogeny and Acadian orogeny led to additional sediment deposition. Ohio transitioned to dryland...
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  • Ma – First of many modern groups, including tetrapods. c. 375 Ma – Acadian Orogeny begins influencing mountain building along the Atlantic seaboard of...
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    total of four orogenies have affected the rocks of the Commonwealth including the Grenville orogeny, the Taconic orogeny, the Acadian orogeny, and the Appalachian...
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    New Hampshire, United States. The onset of magmatism was during the Acadian orogeny, and the pluton is part of the Kinsman suite of the New Hampshire Plutonic...
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