Earth: Geologic Principles and History FIRST EDITIONCHERNICOFF/FOX/TANNER
Chapter 21 The Geology of the Paleozoic Era
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.3 Figure 21.02: Divisions of the Paleozoic Era and key events
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.4 Figure 21.03: Base of the Cambrian system
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.5 Figure 21.04a: Global paleogeography for the Cambrian period
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 Figure 21.04b: Global paleogeography for the Ordovician period
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.7 Figure 21.04c: Global paleogeography for the Early Devonian period
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.8 Figure 21.04d: Global paleogeography for the Late Permian Period
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.9 Figure 21.05: Hercynian orogeny
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.10 Figure 21-1h-01: Regions of western Great Britain in which outcrops of lower Paleozoic strata occur
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.11 Figure 21.08a (1, 2, and 3) Sequence of events responsible for the Taconic orogeny
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.12 Figure 21.08b: Sequence of events responsible for the Taconic orogeny
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.13 Figure Paleogeography of North America during the Silurian Period
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.14 Figure 21.10: The Queenston clastic wedge
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.15 Figure 21.13: Avalonian terrane
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.16 Figure 21.15: Thickness of the Catskill clastic wedge (in meters)
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.17 Figure 21.18a: Principle physiographic provinces of the Appalachians
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.18 Figure 21.18b: Principle physiographic provinces of the Appalachians
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.19 Figure 21.20: Paleozoic structure of the West
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.20 Figure 21.21: Antler orogeny
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.21 Figure 21.23: Cambrian paleogeography
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.22 Figure 21.25: Time-transgressive nature of Lower to Middle Cambrian rocks in the Grand Canyon region
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.23 Figure 21.28: Late Devonian paleogeography of North America
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.24 Figure 21.30: Pennsylvanian cyclothems
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.25 Figure 21.31: Model of coal formation for Pennsylvania cyclothems
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.26 Figure 21.32: Pennsylvanian-age coal deposits
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.27 Figure 21-2h-01: Cross section of a portion of the Michigan basin
Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.28 Figure 21-2h-02: Model for evaporite deposition in the Michigan basin