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Big Bang

  • Big Bang Theory
   

Nebula Theory

  • atoms
  • elements
  • star formation
  • Solar System
  • Sun
  • Formation of Earth
  • Formation of Moon
  • Layers of the Earth

Precambrian Period

  • Plate Tectonics
  • Mountain building
  • Development of life forms

Cambrian Period

  • Gondwana
  • Trilobites
  • Subduction
  • Bronson Hills
  • Invertebrates

Ordovician Period

  • vertebrates
  • accretion
  • Avalonia

Silurian Period

  • granite
  • Fitchburg Formation
  • accretion

Devonian Period

  • earthquakes
  • Rock Cycle
  • Granite State
  • Mt. Monadnock
  • Mt. Washington
  • fossils

Carboniferous Period

  • coal
  • two mica granite
  • Acadian Orogeny

Permian Period

  • Wallis Sands State Park
  • Pangea
  • Permian Extinction

Triassic Period

  • rifting
  • dikes
  • Weathering and erosion
  • Presidential Range
  • Dinosaurs

Jurassic Period

  • volcanic activity
  • Pangea
  • tectonic plates
  • Conway Granite
  • Plutons
  • Ring dikes
  • Ossipee Mountains
  • Mt. Pawtuckaway

Cretaceous Period

  • end of the dinosaurs
  • Atlantic Ocean
 

Paleocene Period

  • Age of Mammals
  • weathering and erosion
 

Neocene Period

  • Pleistocene Epoch
  • Ice Age
  • glaciers
  • roche moutinee
  • talus slope
  • Cannon Mountain
  • kettle holes
  • glacial boulders
  • glacial erratics
  • Madison Boulder
  • weathering and erosion
  • Crawford Notch
  • drowned forest
  • Odiorne Point State Park
  • Old Man of the Mountain