Across
- 3. Echinoderm lily
- 4. Continental margin that's not active
- 6. Shales and conglomerates formed as terrestrial or shallow marine deposits in front of rising mountain chains
- 7. Mountains in Western New England
- 8. Geologic period that saw the first vascular plants
- 10. Mesoproterozoic orogeny that involved a continent-continent collision of Laurentia with the African and South American cratons
- 13. Mountains that record the effects of three Paleozoic orogenies
- 15. Oblique collision of this Paleozoic microcontinent creates Acadian Orogeny
- 16. Major thrust fault surface
- 18. Limestone after metamorphism in presence of silica
- 19. Mountain building event
- 20. Mineralized crack
- 23. A rock with a short predefined life
- 24. Hamburg is one, Taconic thrust slice
- 25. Helderberg group formed early during this period
- 26. Rock unit below the lower Manlius
- 28. Famed prong
- 30. Supercontinent before pangea
Down
- 1. One of the three orogenies responsible for the formation of the Appalachian Mountains.
- 2. The earliest Appalachian sediments were deposited in this ocean
- 5. Name of an important delta formed in the devonian
- 9. It is the load that bends the plate
- 10. A birthstone at BashBish
- 11. Lower Devonian shale below the schoharie
- 12. A GREAT one occurred between the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic eons
- 13. Orogeny that formed the Appalachian Mountains
- 14. Has a cycle named after him
- 16. Basal Cambrian in the Berkshires
- 17. Two could form if in unstable part of strength orientation space
- 18. Marble Formation equivalent to the limestones of Happy Valley
- 21. Formation that inlcludes the Becraft Member
- 22. Common rock found at midocean ridges
- 27. Part of apple pie and the lithosphere
- 29. It diffuses out of biotite at high temperatures