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The "Taconic Unconformity" is an angular unconformity exposed from eastern New York State to the Gaspe peninsula. As the Taconic orogeny subsided in early Silurian time, uplifts and folds in the Hudson Valley region were beveled by erosion. Upon this surface sediments began to accumulate, derived from remaining uplifts in the New England region.
One is a belt of high-grade gneisses formed in a regime of strong mobility, while the other is a region of granitoid intrusions and greenstone belts surrounded by the remnants of a Saamian substratum, (2.9–2.6 Ga) Svecofennian orogeny, also known as Svecokarelian orogeny – Geological process that resulted in formation of continental crust ...
The Taconic Unconformity, near Catskill, NY. The Taconic unconformity is a major unconformity created during the Taconic orogeny, exposed from eastern New York State to the Gaspe peninsula. [1] The orogeny was a long one that comprised multiple bursts; it primarily dated to the end of the Ordovician, and the underlying rocks are primarily this age.
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During the middle Ordovician Period (about 440–480 million years ago), a change in plate motions set the stage for the first Paleozoic mountain building event (Taconic orogeny) in North America. The once quiet, Appalachian passive margin changed to a very active plate boundary when a neighboring oceanic plate, the Iapetus , collided with and ...
Following the Grenville orogeny, mountains eroded, and the sediments from this erosion were deposited below the mountains. [23] The bedrock of the plateau formed about 470 million years ago during the Taconic orogeny , when a volcanic island arc collided with the ancestral North American Continent.
The Taconic Mountains (/ t ə ˈ k ɒ n ɪ k /) are a 150-mile-long sub-range of the Appalachian Mountains lying on the eastern border of New York State and adjacent New England. The range, which played a role in the history of geological science, is separated from the Berkshires and Green Mountains to the east by a series of valleys, principally those of the Housatonic River, Battenkill River ...
The Taconic orogeny, between 490 and 445 million years ago, the Acadian orogeny, from 410 to 380 million years ago, and the Alleghanian orogeny from 325 to 220 million years ago pushed up towering mountain ranges. Extensive erosion of these mountains shed sediments westward into a shallow sea in Arizona.