A cratonic sequence (also known as megasequence, Sloss sequence or supersequence) in geology is a very large-scale lithostratigraphic sequence in the rock...
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The Zuñi sequence was the major cratonic sequence after the Absaroka sequence that began in the latest Jurassic, peaked in the late Cretaceous, and ended...
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glacial period Sundance Sea – Jurassic inland sea Zuñi sequence – A Jurassic-Cretaceous cratonic sequence Tanis (fossil site) – Fossil site associated with...
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when the rapakivi granites intruded. List of shields and cratons Cratonic sequence "Definition of craton in North American English". Oxford Dictionaries...
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generated and migrate into these "traps". Cratonic sequence – Very large-scale lithostratographic sequence Cyclostratigraphy – Study of astronomically...
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The Sauk sequence was the earliest of the six cratonic sequences that have occurred during the Phanerozoic in North America. It was followed by the Tippecanoe...
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The Tippecanoe sequence was the cratonic sequence or the marine transgression following the Sauk sequence; it extended from roughly the Middle Ordovician...
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Americans of the Eastern Woodlands culture group Sauk sequence, in geology, a North American cratonic sequence South African Broadcasting Corporation (Afrikaans:...
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The Absaroka sequence was a cratonic sequence that extended from the end of the Mississippian through the Permian periods. There is an unconformity between...
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Oligocene, the end of which marked the end of the Tejas sequence. Cratonic sequence Sequence stratigraphy Stanley, Steven M. (1998). Earth system history...
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islands were present during the Sauk sequence, the earliest cratonic sequence. As a result of the Sauk sequence, epeiric seas covered most of North America...
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The Kaskaskia sequence was a cratonic sequence that began in the mid-Devonian, peaked early in the Mississippian, and ended by mid-Mississippian time....
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Craig Johnson (author) and its TV adaptation, Longmire Absaroka sequence, a cratonic sequence that extended from the end of the Mississippian through the...
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River, a tributary of the Mississippi River Kaskaskia sequence, a geological cratonic sequence Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site, commemorating the town...
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The Parnaíba Basin (Portuguese: Bacia do Parnaíba) is a large cratonic sedimentary basin located in the North and Northeast portion of Brazil. About 50%...
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Mobile Belt (EGMB) along the east coast. The intra-cratonic "Purana" basins with thick sequences of platform facies rocks and/or rift related sediments...
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where they offset stratigraphic units. Thrusts have also been detected in cratonic settings, where "far-foreland" deformation has advanced into intracontinental...
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in the form of North America, although originally it also included the cratonic areas of Greenland and the Hebridean terrane in northwest Scotland. During...
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medium and high-grade metamorphic environments, commonly within Precambrian cratonic blocks. It consists of two or more constituents often layered repetitively:...
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Trans-Hudson orogeny (section Sequence of events)
7 Ga), and contain parts of some of the oldest cratonic continental crust on Earth. These old cratonic blocks, along with accreted island arc terranes...
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1016/S0301-9268(02)00167-5. Fairbridge, Rhodes W.; Finkl Jr., Charles W. (1980). "Cratonic erosion unconformities and peneplains". The Journal of Geology. 88 (1):...
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of sequence stratigraphy, and for his descriptions of cratonic sequences or "Sloss sequences" in ancient North America. As a whole, these sequences are...
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Sea Fault". Regional Geology and Tectonics: Phanerozoic Passive Margins, Cratonic Basins and Global Tectonic Maps: 616–633. doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-56357-6...
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South Atlantic the São Francisco and Congo cratons were connected by a "cratonic" bridge, the Bahia–Gabon Bridge. The most recent orogenic event on this...
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P. L. and Ludvigson, G. A. 2004. Late Albian Dinosaur Tracks from the Cratonic (eastern) Margin of the Western Interior Seaway, Nebraska, USA. Ichnos...
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in South and Eastern Africa, namely the Kaapvaal craton and also in the cratonic core of Madagascar, as well as West Africa and Brazil, northern Scandinavia...
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Australia's geology can be divided into several main sections: the Archaean cratonic shields, Proterozoic fold belts and sedimentary basins, Phanerozoic sedimentary...
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this landmass by a shallow cratonic sea and its burial by shallow marine sediments of the Cambrian–Early-Ordovician Sauk sequence. The submergence of Laurentia...
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Effects of initial rift inversion over fold-and-thrust development in a cratonic far-foreland setting. Tectonophysics, 757, 88-107. Keller, G.R.; Lidiak...
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is underlaid by African Cratonic Basement rocks of ages in excess of 2 billion years. The Highveld is mostly Karoo Sequence sedimentary rock of a younger...
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