Yavapai orogeny

<p>The Yavapai orogeny was an <a href="/facts/Orogeny/XrvRMpsw">orogenic</a> (mountain-building) event in what is now the <a href="/facts/Southwestern_United_States/LjLFs9fC">Southwestern United States</a> that occurred between 1710 and 1680 million years ago (<a href="/facts/Mya_(unit)/DXcnXuAw">Mya</a>), in the <a href="/facts/Statherian/LHcg66kG">Statherian</a> <a href="/facts/Period_(geology)/6LBR11yQ">Period</a> of the <a href="/facts/Paleoproterozoic/gMS69p5r">Paleoproterozoic</a>. Recorded in the rocks of <a href="/facts/New_Mexico/wosJCGaW">New Mexico</a> and <a href="/facts/Arizona/6ayM3swJ">Arizona</a>, it is interpreted as the collision of the 1800-1700 Mya age Yavapai <a href="/facts/Island_arc/J7FIJPmy">island arc</a> <a href="/facts/Terrane/MPC7Komp">terrane</a> with the proto-North American continent. This was the first in a series of orogenies within a long-lived <a href="/facts/Convergent_boundary/rhgWhQx3">convergent boundary</a> along southern <a href="/facts/Laurentia/G54C2qc3">Laurentia</a> that ended with the ca. 1200–1000 Mya <a href="/facts/Grenville_orogeny/DwY0Jjv7">Grenville orogeny</a> during the final assembly of the <a href="/facts/Supercontinent/amID2KQp">supercontinent</a> <a href="/facts/Rodinia/oBjuSeet">Rodinia</a>, which ended an 800-million-year episode of convergent boundary tectonism.
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Yavapai orogeny