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Over all this time there were other changes taking place:
Variation in O2 levels in
the atmosphere.
Variation in global temperature.
Variation in sea
level on several scales.
Several continental reconstructions are used in the lecture slides but
are not available here. These slides are available at:
Gondwanaland: a
supercontinent made up of
South America, Africa,
Australia, Antarctica, India
and portions of other
continents.
Several small
depositional basins
developed where the
crust was subsiding.
Most sediments
deposited in southern
Ontario were marine
limestones and shales.
Silurian Period
The Siberian/Asian
continent was converging
on Europe.
Taconialand was the growing mountain range that was forming due
to compressive forces associated with convergence of North America
and Europe.
Southern Ontario received shales and sandstones that were eroded
from the rising mountains.
Continued approach of
North America towards
Gondwanaland.
Important economic
deposits for oil and gas, salt
and gypsum.
African Gondwanaland
collided with North America
forming the southern
Appalachian Mountains.
Period of rapid
diversification of organisms
and the dinosaurs became
the dominant group.
The Rocky Mountains
began to rise up and
shallow seas moved both
north and south across
much of central North
America.
Cretaceous Period
Continents continued to
move apart.