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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.
The Silurian Period was named by the Scottish geologist Roderick I. Murchison.12
In 1835, Murchison named the sequence of rocks he studied in Wales and the English borderlands after the Silures, an ancient native people who had resisted Roman conquest. He later detailed his findings and the formal definition of the system in his 1839 work, The Silurian System.12