Avalon  search
Avalon Peninsula  search
BTCanada
 .Eastern Canada
 ..Newfoundland
 ...Newfoundland Island
 ....Avalon Peninsula
SNSW of Saint John's.
Avalon Terrane  search
USEAvalon Zone
Avalon Zone  search
UFAvalon Terrane
RTSouth Carolina
 Appalachians
 Newfoundland Island
 North Carolina
 New Brunswick
 Georgia
 Massachusetts
 New Hampshire
 Maine
 Nova Scotia
 Connecticut
 Avalonia
 Avalonian Orogeny
 Cape Breton Island
 Carolina slate belt
 Rhode Island
SNContinental sliver that extends from the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland to N Nova Scotia, through coastal New Brunswick, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and E Connecticut. Some find evidence that it extends to the Carolina slate belt.
Avalonia  search
RTAvalon Zone
 Great Britain
 Canada
 England
 Ireland
 North America
 plate tectonics
 United States
 Wales
SNPaleocontinent which separated from Gondwana in the lower Paleozoic. Western Avalonia is used in E North America; Eastern Avalonia, in the S British Isles. Indexed with ages, countries and continents as applicable.
Avalonian Orogenic Phase  search
USEAvalonian Orogeny
Avalonian Orogeny  search
BTChronostratigraphic Units
 .Precambrian
 ..Avalonian Orogeny
UFAvalonian Orogenic Phase
RTorogeny
 North America
 Avalon Zone
SNUsed in connection with orogenic event near the end of Precambrian time along E border of North America. Named for the Avalon Peninsula in SE Newfoundland. Before 1978, search Avalonian AND orogeny.