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...

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

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

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...

event involving much of what is now eastern North America named the "Taconic Orogeny". This area includes a locally significant and expansive area of undisturbed...

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...

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

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

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

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

orogeny resulted from the collision of the Cuyania terrane with Pampia in the Ordovician. It has been suggested that the coeval Appalachian Taconic orogeny...

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...

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

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

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

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

States which formed as part of the continental collision known as the Taconic orogeny around 450 mya. Named after Eugene N. Cameron, who first described...

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

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

around 445 million years ago, in the Middle Ordovician, launched the Taconic orogeny and closed the Iapetus Ocean. Crustal shortening caused a large section...

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...

schist and Hartland schist were formed in the Iapetus Ocean during the Taconic orogeny in the Paleozoic era, about 450 million years ago, when the tectonic...

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...

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...

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

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

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

associated with the Grenville orogeny. During the Proterozoic terranes were accreted onto the province. During the Taconic orogeny 445 to 435 million years...