Geology of the Appalachians craton. The collisional belt spread into the Ozark-Ouachita region and through the Marathon Mountains area of Texas. Continent vs. continent collision raised the Appalachian-Ouachita chain to a lofty mountain range on the scale of the present-day Himalaya. The massive bulk of Pangea was completed near the end of the Paleozoic Era (Permian Period) when Africa (Gondwana) plowed into the continental agglomeration, with the Appalachian-Ouachita mountains near the core. Pangea began to break up about 220 million years ago, in the Early Mesozoic Era (Late Triassic Period). As Pangea rifted apart a new passive tectonic margin was born and the forces
Cretaceous Dawn Cretaceous Dawn Cretaceous Dawn is a science-fiction novel by sibling scientists Lisa M. Graziano and Michael S. A. Graziano, published in 2008 by Leapfrog Press (initially published as 'Hell Creek: 65 Million Years in the Past, the Journey Begins' under Trafford Publishing in 2006. The book contains 304 pages. Its story is set to a modern time and also to the prehistory of 65 million years ago (at the end of the Cretaceous era). It starts in the physics laboratory, where long-extinct beetles start to appear. Four people and a dog are then hurled 65 million years through the deep