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1 Early Mesozoic Era: Environmental and Tectonic Events Sea Level and Cratonic Sequences Triassic Geography and Pangaea Jurassic: Breakup of Pangaea Rifting Along the Eastern Margin Connecticut Fault Block Basin Newark Supergroup

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    Early Mesozoic Era:Environmental and

    Tectonic Events

    Sea Level and Cratonic Sequences

    Triassic Geography and Pangaea Jurassic: Breakup of Pangaea

    Rifting Along the Eastern Margin Connecticut Fault Block Basin

    Newark Supergroup

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    Normal Faults and Basaltic Sills

    Palisades Sill

    Rifting and Evaporites

    Salt Domes in the Gulf Accretion Alongthe Western Margin

    Sonoma Orogeny

    Permian-Triassic

    Nevadan Orogeny

    Jurassic-Cretaceous

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    EarlyNevadanOrogeny

    LateNevadanOrogeny