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North American Tectonic reconstructions are from the website of Dr. Ron Blakey at N.Arizona University These are by far the best reconstructions I have found http://cpgeosystems.com Colorado Plateau Geosystems I have outlined Texas for the purposes of our Geology Talk, Enjoy! -Carter Keairns 512-757-0735 [email protected]

Texas Tectonics

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North American Tectonic reconstructions are from the website of Dr. Ron Blakey at N.Arizona University These are by far the best reconstructions I have found http://cpgeosystems.com Colorado Plateau Geosystems I have outlined Texas for the purposes of our Geology Talk, Enjoy! -Carter Keairns 512-757-0735 [email protected]

Dan
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~575 mya Late PreCambrian

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~575 mya Late PreCambrian

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~510 mya Mid-Cambrian

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~500 mya Late Cambrian

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~485 mya Early Ordovician

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~470 mya Mid Ordovician

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~450 mya Late Ordovician

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~430 mya Early Silurian

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~420 mya Late Silurian

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~400 mya Early Devonian

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~385 mya Mid Devonian

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~360 mya Late Devonian

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~345 mya Mid Mississippian

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~325 mya Late Mississippian

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~315 mya Early Pennsylvanian

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~300 mya Late Pennsylvanian

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~290 mya Early Permian

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~275 mya Mid Pennsylvanian

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~260 mya late Permian

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~245 early Triasssic

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~230 mya Mid Triassic

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~210 late Triassic

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~195 mya early Jurassic

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~180 mya early Jurassic

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~170 mya mid Jurassic

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~150 mya late Jurassic

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~140 mya early Cretaceous

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~130 mya early Cretaceous

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~115 mya early Cretaceous

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~100 mya Late Cretaceous

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~85 mya Late Cretaceous

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~75 mya Late Cretaceous

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~65 mya K-T Boundary

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~60 mya Paleocene

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~50 mya Eocene

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~40 mya Eocene

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~25 mya Oligocene

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~15 mya Miocene

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~8 mya Miocene

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~3 mya Pliocene

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~0.12 mya Quaternary Glacial

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