For instance, the Sligo carbonate platform margin is about Avoyelles, Rapides, Ph, The Edwards, even further North. Use these to guide your study for the comprehensive portion of the final. Antarctica moved to south pole in Eocene, and Ice Cap began to form. As Africa and Australia drift further away, the circumpolar current was established. The Cenozoic orogeny is called Laramide and involves the entire Cordillera.
Sediments continue to accumulate in Gulf of Mexico.
As much as 3 miles of them form Paleocene-Oligocene. 17 Remember the scheme Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene make up the Neogene Period of the Cenozoic Era. Boundary in absolute time is 23-24 million years ago for Paleogene and Neogene. For standard stratigraphic column, we aretalking about the late Tertiary, and Quaternary. Many are in fact, weeds.