North Carolina Geological Historty

  • 145

    Mesozoic

    Mesozoic
    Flowing plants proliferated, along with new types of insects that pollinate them. Many new types of dinosaurs. Mordern sharks appeared in the sea. Primitive birds gradually replaced pterosaurs.
  • 416

    Paleozoic

    Fish were common and diverse. The first lungfish, which could breathe air, appeared, followed by the first amphilbians.
  • 416

    Paleozoic

    plants took over tyhe land.The first torsetail and ferns appeared, and he occuered for the first seed-bearing plants.
  • 444

    Paleozoic

    The first vascular plants appeared - Plants with specialized tissues for conducting water and nutrients - along with the first plants of land.
  • 444

    Paleozoic

    As the contienents of North America and Europe/Africa moved together, more rock was pushed upwards.
  • 542

    Paleozoic

    The "Cambrain Explosion" saw a major diversification of life. many fossils survived from this time.
  • 542

    Paleozic

    The kings Mountain Belt was formed about 540million years ago as the piedmont slowly moved into the rest of the continent.
  • 542

    Paleozoic

    By this time, the eastern coast of North America lay somewhere in middle Tennesse, except for islands and volcanoes, North Carolina was under water.
  • Mesoproterozic

    About 1,300mya, the first mountains were formed in north carolina called the greenville Mountains .
  • Period: to

    Mesoproterozic

  • Cenozoic

    Mordern mammals like birds and the first apes appeared, Grasses spread across the globe, And rapid erosion in the piedmont was uneven, and left behind the UwHarrie Mountains behind.
  • Cenozoic

    Animals, especially mammals, evolved rapidly and became more diverse.About 31 mya, The ocean advanced west as far as present-day New Bern.
  • Paleozoic

    About 320 million years ago, The North American and Euro- Africa continents collided. The land under the peidmont was aslo push upward. The contients were united called Pangea.
  • Paleozoic

    In wetland forests, ferns thrive and primitive trees called scale tree grew more than 100 feet high.
  • Paleozoic

    In the seas, invertebrates diversified into many new types, and the first tiny vertebrates appeared. The first green plants and fungi appeared on land.
  • Period: to 542

    Paleozoic

  • Mesoproterozic

    As loxygen-producing bacteria proliferated, the atmosphere became oxygenic filled with oxygen for the first time.