Everything about The Antler Orogeny totally explained
The
Antler orogeny is a mountain-building episode that's named for Antler Peak, at
Battle Mountain, Nevada. The
orogeny extensively deformed
Paleozoic rocks of the
Great Basin in
Nevada and western
Utah during Late
Devonian and Early
Mississippian time. In the late Devonian, the Antler volcanic
island arc terrane collided with was then the west coast of North America in the vicinity of today's border between Utah and Nevada. The collision zone is today signified by the geological alignment called the
Carlin Unconformity (or Carlin Trend), an area enriched in various ores including gold. It is also represented by the
Roberts Mountains Thrust. It is broadly contemporary with the
Acadian orogeny of eastern North America.
The Antler orogeny was first defined by the American geologist
Ralph J. Roberts. It was, however, originally described in terms of the old geology of
geosynclines, before the acceptance of what is now known as
plate tectonics including the concept of
terranes.
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