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The Silurian system was first identified by the Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison, who was examining fossil-bearing sedimentary rock strata in south Wales in the early 1830s. He named the sequences for a Celtic tribe of Wales, the Silures , inspired by his friend Adam Sedgwick , who had named the period of his study the Cambrian , from a ...
This timeline of Silurian research is a chronological listing of events in the history of geology and paleontology focused on the study of Earth during the span of time lasting from 443.4–419.2 million years ago; the Silurian, and the legacies of this period in the rock and fossil records.
Acadian phase – North American orogeny – In the eastern U.S., during the Silurian and Devonian Periods Appalachian orogeny – Mountain-forming event that formed the Appalachian and Allegheny Mountains – Usually seen as the same as the Variscan orogeny in Europe
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The Salina Group or Salina Formation is a Late Silurian-age, Stratigraphic unit of sedimentary rock that is found in Northeastern and Midwestern North America.Named for its Halite beds, the phrase "Salina Group" was first used as a descriptive term by James D. Dana in 1863.
This category contains events which happened in the Silurian, a division of the geologic time scale. See geologic time scale for information about its divisions and how they relate to each other. See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology
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