The Paleontology of North America

The Carboniferous in Vermont, US

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undifferentiated rock units

See exposures in this state from the:

Quaternary
Tertiary
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
Precambrian

Carboniferous Fossils

No slide show is available for the Carboniferous in Vermont.

Paleontology and geology

During the Carboniferous, erosion continued to remove sediment from the mountains that were uplifted during the Devonian. Any record of sediments deposited in non-marine environments (lakes, rivers) that might have existed at this time, are not preserved in Vermont.

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