Orogeny in North America

� Wopmay orogeny
� Taconic orogeny
� Acadian orogeny
� Alleghanian orogeny
� Palisades orogeny
� Antler orogeny
� Ancestral Rockies orogeny
� Sonoman orogeny
� Sevier orogeny
� Laramide orogeny

The Cordilleran System forms a c. 500 km wide ''collage'' of oceanic, arc and continental margin tectono-stratigraphic terranes accreted during the Phanerozoic to the western margin of continental North America. Each terrane is a fault bounded entity of regional extent characterized by an internally homogeneous stratigraphy and geologic history that is different from that of contiguous terranes.
Terranes that are potentially far traveled from their sites of origin are called ''suspect'' terranes, whereas those that are clearly related to the continental margin against which they presently sit are called ''native'' terranes.

geological history of America
Geological History
Cordillerian Orogenic System
Orogenic process