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Templates that present a map or maps of North American areas. The pages listed in this category are meant to be function templates , i.e. templates that produce text, images or other elements . This page is part of Wikipedia's administration and not part of the encyclopedia.
The North American plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.With an area of 76 million km 2 (29 million sq mi), it is the Earth's second largest tectonic plate, behind the Pacific plate (which borders the plate to the west).
Laurentia basement rocks. Laurentia or the North American Craton is a large continental craton that forms the ancient geological core of North America.Many times in its past, Laurentia has been a separate continent, as it is now in the form of North America, although originally it also included the cratonic areas of Greenland and the Hebridean Terrane in northwest Scotland.
Laurentian Craton, also known as North American Craton – Craton forming the geological core of North America (Canada and United States) Insular plate – Ancient oceanic plate; Intermontane plate – Ancient oceanic tectonic plate on the west coast of North America about 195 million years ago; Izanagi plate – Ancient tectonic plate; Mexican ...
Hearne Craton; Nain Craton (part of North Atlantic Craton) North American Craton (Laurentia) Rae Craton; Sask Craton; Sclavia Craton; Slave Craton, Northwest Territories, Canada (4.03–3.5 Ga) Superior Craton, Canada and northern United States (3.7–2.7 Ga) Wyoming Craton
(Click to zoom) See legend below This is the legend for the North American geological map above. Geologic map of North America. The geology of North America is a subject of regional geology and covers the North American continent, the third-largest in the world. Geologic units and processes are investigated on a large scale to reach a ...
Cretaceous Formations of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Geologic map and the labeled geologic formations that lie directly beneath the surface in Dallas County Cretaceous formations of Texas Where the DFW Metroplex was located during the last super continent known as Pangea Placement of Tectonic Plates and DFW location around ≈94 million years ago The Cretaceous rocks in the DFW Metroplex ...
The Wyoming Craton is a craton in the west-central United States and western Canada – more specifically, in Montana, Wyoming, southern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, and parts of northern Utah. Also called the Wyoming Province, it is the initial core of the continental crust of North America. The Wyoming Craton was sutured together with the ...