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Pangea in the Late Permian Period 1

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Pangea in the Late Permian Period

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No Polar Ice Caps until Pangea Broke Up

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How a Supercontinent Breaks Up

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Massive Evaporite Sequences

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Stage 1 & 2 Breakup - Late Triassic through Jurassic

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Stage 3 Breakup - Late Jurassic

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Stage 4 Breakup - Late Cretaceous

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Sloss Seas

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Absaroka Sea Transgression in Permian

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Absaroka Sea Regression in Triassic

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Zuni or Sundance Sea Transgression in the Jurassic

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Zuni in the Cretaceous (Cretaceous Interior Seaway)

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Triassic Rift Basins

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Triassic Sills and Dikes - The Palisades Sill

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Cretaceous in Laurasia

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Western Laurasia Orogenies

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Permian Island Arc

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Permian Sonoma Orogeny

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Accreted Mesozoic Suspect Terrains

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Nevadan Orogeny - the Franciscan Complex

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Nevadan Orogeny Batholiths

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Thrust Faulting in the Sevier Orogeny

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The Cenozoic Laramide Orogeny

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