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(Click to zoom) See legend below This is the legend for the North American geological map above. Geologic map of North America. The geology of North America is a subject of regional geology and covers the North American continent, the third-largest in the world. Geologic units and processes are investigated on a large scale to reach a ...
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Areas of Cenozoic North America that were covered by seawater tended to be areas near the modern coasts. [135] The Cannonball Sea near Minot, North Dakota was the last of the North American interior. [136] Cenozoic marine invertebrates are best known from deposits near the coasts and tend to resemble modern forms.
Western North America suffered the effects of repeated collision as slabs of ocean crust sank beneath the continental edge. Slivers of continental crust, carried along by subducting ocean plates, were swept into the subduction zone and scraped onto North America's edge. [12] About 200–300 miles inland, magma generated above the subducting ...
United States geology-related lists (2 C, 57 P) Pages in category "North America geology-related lists" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
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The Geology of North America: an overview covers Greenland in detail and mentions it on 69 different pages. Geologists and ideas: a history of North American geology has a whole chapter on East Greenland and mentions "Greenland" on 34 separate pages. Spinning Spark 13:27, 27 May 2013 (UTC) Hi Spinningspark!