The Carboniferous in North Carolina, US |
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Paleontology and geologyThe final episode of mountain building (the Allegheny Orogeny) that created the Appalachian Mountains began during the Carboniferous, and this was a time of intense deformation and metamorphism. There are no sedimentary rocks or fossils from this time period. |
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