Ancestral Rocky Mountains orogeny

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The Ancestral Rocky Mountains orogeny was a late Paleozoic mountain-building event that created a series of high-standing uplifts and basins in what is now the central and southwestern United States.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geological event ⓘ
mountain-building event ⓘ
orogeny ⓘ
affectedRegion Arizona ⓘ
Colorado ⓘ
Kansas ⓘ
New Mexico ⓘ
Oklahoma ⓘ
Texas ⓘ
Utah ⓘ
causedBy assembly of Pangea ⓘ
far-field stresses from plate collisions ⓘ
characterizedBy block uplifts ⓘ
reverse faulting ⓘ
strike-slip faulting ⓘ
subsiding basins ⓘ
thrust faulting ⓘ
continent Laurentia ⓘ
North America ⓘ
endTime early Permian ⓘ
followedBy Laramide orogeny ⓘ
formedStructure Ancestral Front Range ⓘ
Ancestral Uncompahgre highlands ⓘ
linked to: Uncompahgre Plateau

Central Colorado trough ⓘ
Delaware Basin ⓘ
Midcontinent basins and uplifts ⓘ
Paradox Basin ⓘ
Uncompahgre uplift ⓘ
linked to: Uncompahgre Plateau
locatedIn central United States ⓘ
southwestern United States ⓘ
partOf late Paleozoic ⓘ
precededBy Antler orogeny ⓘ
produced alluvial fan deposits ⓘ
marine shelf deposits in adjacent basins ⓘ
thick Pennsylvanian sedimentary sequences ⓘ
relatedTo Alleghanian orogeny ⓘ
linked to: Appalachian orogeny

Ouachita orogeny ⓘ
resultedIn Ancestral Rocky Mountains ⓘ
high-standing uplifts ⓘ
intracratonic basins ⓘ
series of basins ⓘ
series of uplifts ⓘ
startTime late Mississippian ⓘ
tectonicSetting interior of North American craton ⓘ
intraplate deformation ⓘ
timePeriod Pennsylvanian ⓘ
early Permian ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

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Wichita Mountains → orogeny → Ancestral Rocky Mountains orogeny ⓘ
Ancestral Rocky Mountains orogeny → resultedIn → Ancestral Rocky Mountains ⓘ
linked to: Ancestral Rocky Mountains orogeny
Fountain Formation → sourceArea → Ancestral Rocky Mountains ⓘ
linked to: Ancestral Rocky Mountains orogeny