Mazatzal orogeny

Precambrian provinces of western North America, showing the Mazatzal Province (in brown)

The Mazatzal orogeny was an orogenic event in what is now the Southwestern United States from 1650 to 1600 Mya[1] in the Statherian Period of the Paleoproterozoic. Preserved in the rocks of New Mexico and Arizona, it is interpreted as the collision of the 1700-1600 Mya age[1] Mazatzal island arc terrane with the proto-North American continent. This was the second in a series of orogenies within a long-lived convergent boundary along southern Laurentia that ended with the ca. 1200–1000 Mya Grenville orogeny during the final assembly of the supercontinent Rodinia, which ended an 800-million-year episode of convergent boundary tectonism.[2][3][4][5][6]

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