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Events of the Stenian

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Mesoproterozoic

Np

Ectasian

Stenian

Tonian

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First appearance of Bangiomorpha pubescens^[1]

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Large-scale mountain-building from continent-continent collision of the Grenvillian orogeny^[2]

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Development of the North American Midcontinent Rift^[3]

Events of the Stenian Period
Vertical axis scale: Millions of years ago

References

^ Gibson, Timothy M.; Shih, Patrick M.; Cumming, Vivien M.; Fischer, Woodward W.; Crockford, Peter W.; Hodgskiss, Malcolm S.W.; Wörndle, Sarah; Creaser, Robert A.; Rainbird, Robert H.; Skulski, Thomas M.; Halverson, Galen P. (February 2018). "Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis". Geology. 46 (2): 135–138. doi:10.1130/G39829.1. eISSN 1943-2682. ISSN 0091-7613.
^ McLelland, James M.; Selleck, Bruce W.; Bickford, M. E. (2010). "Review of the Proterozoic evolution of the Grenville Province, its Adirondack outlier, and the Mesoproterozoic inliers of the Appalachians". In Tollo, Richard P.; Bartholomew, Mervin J.; Hibbard, James P.; Karabinos, Paul M. (eds.). From Rodinia to Pangea: The Lithotectonic Record of the Appalachian Region. doi:10.1130/2010.1206(02). ISBN 978-0-8137-1206-2. LCCN 2010003691.
^ Swanson-Hysell, Nicholas L.; Ramezani, Jahandar; Fairchild, Luke M.; Rose, Ian R. (May 2019). "Failed rifting and fast drifting: Midcontinent Rift development, Laurentia's rapid motion and the driver of Grenvillian orogenesis". GSA Bulletin. 131 (5–6): 913–940. doi:10.1130/B31944.1. eISSN 1943-2674. ISSN 0016-7606.