taconic

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Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England
They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian

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Taconic Orogeny
Mountain-building event that affected the Appalachian Geosyncline along the eastern coast of the U.S. Evidence for the orogeny is most pronounced in the northern Appalachian Mountains, but its effects can be noted as far away as Tennessee and Georgia. Events ascribed to it include the development of New York's Taconic Range and Vermont's Green Mountains. Originally thought to have occurred at approximately the Ordovician-Silurian boundary ( 443 million years ago), it is now generally considered to have consisted of several pulses from the mid-Ordovician to the early Silurian Period
Taconic Range
Part of the Appalachian mountain system, northeastern U.S. The range extends 150 mi (240 km) from southern Vermont to northern New York. Mount Equinox (3,816 ft [1,163 m]) in southwestern Vermont is the highest peak. In Massachusetts the mountains form the western section of the Berkshire Hills. Taconic State Park, in New York, is a popular mountain recreation area