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Taconica

geological region, North America
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  • Silurian paleogeography
    Silurian Period
    / Clastic wedges

    Taconica was a long narrow highland roughly corresponding to the present position of the Appalachian Mountains in North America. During the Llandovery Epoch these highlands shed the Shawangunk Conglomerate (500 metres, or 1,640 feet, thick) near its front in southeastern New York state and distributed…

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    Taconica was a long narrow highland roughly corresponding to the present position of the Appalachian Mountains in North America. During the Llandovery Epoch these highlands shed the Shawangunk Conglomerate (500 metres, or 1,640 feet, thick) near its front in southeastern New York state and distributed…

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