Texas Tectonics
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Transcript of Texas Tectonics
North American Tectonic reconstructions are from the website of Dr. Ron Blakey at N.Arizona University These are by far the best reconstructions I have found http://cpgeosystems.com Colorado Plateau Geosystems I have outlined Texas for the purposes of our Geology Talk, Enjoy! -Carter Keairns 512-757-0735 [email protected]
~575 mya Late PreCambrian
~575 mya Late PreCambrian
~510 mya Mid-Cambrian
~500 mya Late Cambrian
~485 mya Early Ordovician
~470 mya Mid Ordovician
~450 mya Late Ordovician
~430 mya Early Silurian
~420 mya Late Silurian
~400 mya Early Devonian
~385 mya Mid Devonian
~360 mya Late Devonian
~345 mya Mid Mississippian
~325 mya Late Mississippian
~315 mya Early Pennsylvanian
~300 mya Late Pennsylvanian
~290 mya Early Permian
~275 mya Mid Pennsylvanian
~260 mya late Permian
~245 early Triasssic
~230 mya Mid Triassic
~210 late Triassic
~195 mya early Jurassic
~180 mya early Jurassic
~170 mya mid Jurassic
~150 mya late Jurassic
~140 mya early Cretaceous
~130 mya early Cretaceous
~115 mya early Cretaceous
~100 mya Late Cretaceous
~85 mya Late Cretaceous
~75 mya Late Cretaceous
~65 mya K-T Boundary
~60 mya Paleocene
~50 mya Eocene
~40 mya Eocene
~25 mya Oligocene
~15 mya Miocene
~8 mya Miocene
~3 mya Pliocene
~0.12 mya Quaternary Glacial
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