Appalachian–Ouachita–Marathon orogenic system

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The Appalachian–Ouachita–Marathon orogenic system is a vast Paleozoic mountain-building belt that once stretched from present-day Canada through the eastern and southern United States into Mexico, formed during the assembly of the supercontinent Pangaea.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geologic province
mountain range system
orogenic belt
extendsFrom Canada
extendsTo Mexico
eastern United States
southern United States
formedDuring Carboniferous period
Late Paleozoic
Permian period
formsBoundaryBetween North American craton and Gulf of Mexico basin
linked to: Gulf Coast Basin
geologicAge Paleozoic
hasEconomicImportance coal basins
hydrocarbon resources
metallic mineral deposits
hasMaximumActivity Late Carboniferous to Early Permian
hasPart Appalachian orogen
linked to: Appalachian orogeny

Marathon orogen
linked to: Marathon orogeny

Ouachita orogen
linked to: Ouachita orogeny
hasStructuralStyle fold-and-thrust belt
thin-skinned tectonics
knownFor long linear mountain belt
record of Paleozoic plate convergence
linkedTo Caledonian orogeny
Variscan–Hercynian orogenic belt
locatedIn North America
oriented roughly northeast–southwest
orogenyType collisional orogeny
partOf Paleozoic orogenies
Pangaea assembly
preserves deformed sedimentary rocks
igneous intrusions
metamorphic rocks
recordedIn North American stratigraphy
relatedTo Appalachian Mountains
Marathon Mountains
Ouachita Mountains
researchField paleogeography
structural geology
tectonics
resultedFrom assembly of Pangaea
closure of the Rheic Ocean
collision of Laurentia and Gondwana
tectonicSetting continental–continental collision
convergent plate boundary
underlies Atlantic Coastal Plain
Gulf Coastal Plain

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Ouachita orogeny overlapsWith Appalachian–Ouachita–Marathon orogenic system
Appalachian gold belt partOf Appalachian orogen
linked to: Appalachian–Ouachita–Marathon orogenic system
Manhattan schist isPartOf Appalachian orogen
linked to: Appalachian–Ouachita–Marathon orogenic system