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EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Silurian named after Silures, an ancient tribe from Wales named by Roderick Murchison (1830’s)

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1 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Silurian named after Silures, an ancient tribe from Wales named by Roderick Murchison (1830’s)

2 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Laurentia collides with Baltica closing the northen branch of the Iapetus Ocean and forming the "Old Red Sandstone" continent.

3 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY

4 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY

5 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY North America

6 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY

7 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Resistant Lockport Dolomite Niagara Falls Part of Tippecanoe Sequence

8 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY

9 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin

10 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin

11 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin

12 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin Barrier reefs developed on margins Patch or pinnacle reefs on inside margin of basin Reservoir rocks for petroleum

13 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin Depositional environments Water circulation patterns

14 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin

15 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin

16 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin

17 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin Depositional environments Water circulation patterns

18 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin Barred evaporite basin

19 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin Salt deposits

20 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin Salt deposits

21 EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOCLIMATE

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