1 Early Mesozoic Era: Environmental and Tectonic Events Sea Level and Cratonic Sequences Triassic Geography and Pangaea Jurassic: Breakup of Pangaea Rifting Along the Eastern Margin Connecticut Fault Block Basin Newark Supergroup

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Early Mesozoic Era:Environmental and

Tectonic Events

Sea Level and Cratonic Sequences

Triassic Geography and Pangaea Jurassic: Breakup of Pangaea

Rifting Along the Eastern Margin Connecticut Fault Block Basin

Newark Supergroup
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Normal Faults and Basaltic Sills

Palisades Sill

Rifting and Evaporites

Salt Domes in the Gulf Accretion Alongthe Western Margin

Sonoma Orogeny

Permian-Triassic

Nevadan Orogeny

Jurassic-Cretaceous
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EarlyNevadanOrogeny

LateNevadanOrogeny