EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Silurian named after Silures, an ancient tribe from Wales named by Roderick Murchison (1830’s)

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EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Silurian named after Silures, an ancient tribe from Wales named by Roderick Murchison (1830’s)

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Laurentia collides with Baltica closing the northen branch of the Iapetus Ocean and forming the "Old Red Sandstone" continent.

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY North America

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Resistant Lockport Dolomite Niagara Falls Part of Tippecanoe Sequence

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin Barrier reefs developed on margins Patch or pinnacle reefs on inside margin of basin Reservoir rocks for petroleum

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin Depositional environments Water circulation patterns

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin Depositional environments Water circulation patterns

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin Barred evaporite basin

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin Salt deposits

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY Michigan Basin Salt deposits

EARLY PALEOZOIC EVENTS SILURIAN PALEOCLIMATE