SUMMARY: In addition to the large continents of N America, Scandinavia and
Gondwana, the regions around the early Palaeozoic Iapetus Ocean contained several small terranes. These included an island arc, which collided with various parts of N America to produce, in succession, the Grampian, Humberian and Taconic orogenies. They also included the terrane ofAvalonia, a later...
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