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Definition of Acadian epoch

Acadian epoch
Acadian A*ca"di*an, a. Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. ``Acadian farmers.' --Longfellow. -- n. A native of Acadie. Acadian epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. Acadian owl (Zo["o]l.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

Meaning of Acadian epoch from wikipedia

- the first Archaeocyath bioherms. The Terreneuvian is the lowermost series/epoch of the Cambrian, lasting from 538.8 ± 0.2 Ma to c. 521 Ma. It is divided...
- Epoch of the Silurian (444–443 Ma). There was no break in sediments in the area until the end of the Early Devonian, which was caused by the Acadian Orogeny...
- Period. An epoch is the second smallest geochronologic unit. It is equivalent to a chronostratigraphic series. There are 37 defined epochs and one informal...
- mountain-building events as Laurussia and Gondwana approached; these include the Acadian Orogeny in North America and the beginning of the Variscan Orogeny in Europe...
- Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glaciation epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present. The last advance covered most...
- the French raid on Deerfield, New Englander Benjamin Church raided the Acadian village of Castine before gathering at Mount Desert Island with other ships...
- by the Caledonian folding or in North America as an early phase in the Acadian orogeny. In the Carboniferous, the new continent and another terrane, Armorica...
- Late Silurian Perry Mountain, Smalls Falls, and Madrid Formations. The Acadian orogeny took place during the middle to late Devonian. Following the subduction...
- Euramerica showing the Caledonian orogeny The branches of the Caledonian/Acadian belts at the end of the Caledonian orogeny (Early Devonian). Present-day...
- mid-Paleozoic, the collision of North America and Europe produced the Acadian-Caledonian uplifts, and a subducting plate uplifted eastern Australia....