Discuss the paleogeography and tectonic history of the Appalachian mobile belt. What will be an ideal response?


Several separate, but related, orogenies were responsible for the Appalachian Mountains. The
Taconic Orogeny influenced the Appalachian area. The Middle Ordovician Caledonian Orogeny
was formed by subduction-related activity along what would become the east coast of North
America. The Late Silurian to Late Devonian Acadian Orogeny also was subduction-related
concluding with the collision of Baltica and Laurentia

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