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Silurian Period
Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins during the middle part of the Silurian Period. Included in the paleogeographic reconstruction are the locations of the interval's subduction zones.
Scottish geologist Roderick I. Murchison published his classic work, The Silurian System, in 1839.1