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- The Laramide orogeny was a time period of mountain building in western North America, which started in the Late Cretaceous, 80 to 70 million years ago...
- overlapped in time and space with the Laramide orogeny. Early Sevier thrusting began well before initial Laramide deformation. However, there is evidence...
- west. The Rockies formed 55 million to 80 million years ago during the Laramide orogeny, in which a number of plates began sliding underneath the North...
- formations had eroded away during the Laramide orogeny. Building of the Rocky Mountains by folding during the Laramide orogeny 80 to 55 million years ago...
- resistant sandstone beds that cap the ridge. The hogback was formed during the Laramide orogeny, approximately 50 million years (50 my) ago, when the modern Rockies...
- the Nevadan belt in the middle (including the Sierra Nevada), and the Laramide belt in the east (including the Rocky Mountains). These three orogenic...
- epoch. Reglaciation of Antarctica and formation of its ice cap; End of Laramide and Sevier Orogenies of the Rocky Mountains in North America. ****enic...
- forming around this time from a period of mountain building called the Laramide orogeny, between 80 and 55 mya. The formation of the Isthmus of Panama...
- American Cordillera, as the Nevadan orogeny was followed by the Sevier and Laramide orogenies. Gondwana had begun to break up during the Jur****ic Period, but...
- million years, faults within the range also record deformation during the Laramide orogeny, between 85 and 45 million years ago. The highest peak is North...