Texas Tectonics by Carter Keairns

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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]

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  • ~575 mya Late PreCambrian

  • ~575 mya Late PreCambrian

  • ~510 mya Mid-Cambrian

  • ~500 mya Late Cambrian

  • ~485 mya Early Ordovician

  • ~470 mya Mid Ordovician

  • ~450 mya Late Ordovician

  • ~430 mya Early Silurian

  • ~420 mya Late Silurian

  • ~400 mya Early Devonian

  • ~385 mya Mid Devonian

  • ~360 mya Late Devonian

  • ~345 mya Mid Mississippian

  • ~325 mya Late Mississippian

  • ~315 mya Early Pennsylvanian

  • ~300 mya Late Pennsylvanian

  • ~290 mya Early Permian

  • ~275 mya Mid Pennsylvanian

  • ~260 mya late Permian

  • ~245 early Triasssic

  • ~230 mya Mid Triassic

  • ~210 late Triassic

  • ~195 mya early Jurassic

  • ~180 mya early Jurassic

  • ~170 mya mid Jurassic

  • ~150 mya late Jurassic

  • ~140 mya early Cretaceous

  • ~130 mya early Cretaceous

  • ~115 mya early Cretaceous

  • ~100 mya Late Cretaceous

  • ~85 mya Late Cretaceous

  • ~75 mya Late Cretaceous

  • ~65 mya K-T Boundary

  • ~60 mya Paleocene

  • ~50 mya Eocene

  • ~40 mya Eocene

  • ~25 mya Oligocene

  • ~15 mya Miocene

  • ~8 mya Miocene

  • ~3 mya Pliocene

  • ~0.12 mya Quaternary Glacial

  • Present Day