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Palisades Sill - Environmental Geology - Lecture Slides, Slides of Earth Sciences

In these Lecture Slides, the Lecturer covered the following basic concepts of Environmental Geology : Palisades Sill, Three-Toed Dinosaur Footprint, Newark Supergroup, Gulf of Mexico, Rift Sequence, High, Low Density, Good Oil Traps, Texas and Louisiana, Diameters

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2012/2013

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PALISADES SILL

Three-toed Dinosaur Footprint- Newark Supergroup

Tectonic History

• Cordilleran Orogenic Belt

  • Western North America-South America– 300-1000km wide– Terrane accretion
    • Wrangelia Traveled 5000KM
      • Jurassic to today

Middle Triassic Sonoman OrogenyEarly Jurassic Nevadan OrogenySuturing of Exotic terranes to western US

Orogenic events created igneousplutonic intrusions, batholiths,like the Sierra Nevada Batholithand the Idaho Batholith