Nevada orogeny

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• Orogeny — Geologic provinces of the world (USGS)   Shield …   Wikipedia

• Sierra Nevada (U.S.) — Geobox|Range name=Sierra Nevada image size=300 image caption=Little Lakes Valley: typical eastside terrain country=United States state=California| state1=Nevada parent= | border= length imperial=400 length orientation=North South highest=Mount… …   Wikipedia

• Antler orogeny — The Antler orogeny is a mountain building episode that is named for Antler Peak, at Battle Mountain, Nevada. The orogeny extensively deformed Paleozoic rocks of the Great Basin in Nevada and western Utah during Late Devonian and Early… …   Wikipedia

• Nevadan orogeny — ▪ geology       mountain building event in western North America that started in the Late Jurassic (Jurassic Period) Epoch about 156 million years ago. This event is generally considered to be the first significant phase of Cordilleran… …   Universalium

• Sierra Nevada (Spain) — Geobox|Range name=Sierra Nevada image caption=Sierra Nevada general view from the West country=Spain region type=Communities region=Andalusia unit= |border= area= | length= | length orientation= width= | width orientation= highest=Mulhacén… …   Wikipedia

• Nevadan orogeny — The Nevadan Orogeny was a major mountain building event that took place along the western edge of ancient North America between the Mid to Late Jurassic (between about 180 and 140 million years ago).[1] The Nevadan orogeny was the first of three… …   Wikipedia

• Laramide orogeny — Series of mountain building events that affected much of western North America in Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary time (с 65 million years ago). The Laramide orogeny originally was believed to mark the Cretaceous Tertiary boundary. It is now… …   Universalium

• Laramide orogeny — The Laramide orogeny was a period of mountain building in western North America, which started in the Late Cretaceous, 70 to 80 million years ago, and ended 35 to 55 million years ago. The exact duration and ages of beginning and end of the… …   Wikipedia

• Antler orogeny — ▪ geological event       a mountain building event in Late Devonian and Mississippian time (about 340 to 370 million years ago) that affected a linear belt in the Cordilleran Geosyncline, extending from the California–Nevada border northward… …   Universalium

• Black Mountains (Nevada) — Geobox|Range name = Black Mountains native name = other name = category = Mountain Range etymology = image caption = country = United States state = Nevada region = district = Clark County municipality = topo topo maker = USGS range = border =… …   Wikipedia

• Calico Mountains (Nevada) — Geobox|Range name = Calico Mountains native name = other name = Calico Hills category = Mountain Range etymology = image caption = country = United States state = Nevada region = Black Rock Desert district = Humboldt County municipality = range …   Wikipedia