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What orogeny is the mountain building in western N. America
Sonoma Orogeny
When did the Sonoma Orogeny occured?
Triassic Period
What is the First Pulse of Cordilleran Orogeny
Nevadan Orogeny
When did the Nevadan Orogeny occur?
Jurassic Period
Rifting apart of S. America and Africa
Jurassic Period
Rifting of India
Jurassic Period
India broke away from Gondwana
Cretaceous Period
What is the mountain building event that produced the linear zone of deformed rock strata in West US
Sevier Orogeny
When did the Sevier Orogeny occur?
Cretaceous Period
Formation of Ontong Java Plateau
Cretaceous Period
What is a series of mountain building events that affected much of West N.A
Laramide Orogeny
When did the Laramide Orogeny occur?
Cretaceous Period
When did the Alpine Orogeny occur?
Paleocene Epoch
Closing of Western Tethys
Paleocene Epoch
Formation of Deccan Traps
Paleocene Epoch
When did the Himalayan Orogeny occur?
Eocene Epoch
Formation of Baikal Rift, Red Sea
Oligocene Epoch
African-Arabian plate joined to asia forming the Alphine Belt
Miocene Epoch
Formation of Isthmus of Panama
Pliocene Epoch
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