| Following the Columbian orogeny, the third cycle of basin fill was dominated by sediments derived from the west and filling to the east. |
| Avalonia drifted rapidly northwards, opening the Rheic ocean until it collided with Laurentia in the Silurian during the Caledonian orogeny. |
| Granitoids are abundant in the Iberian Massif, and result from melting of the continental crust thickened during the Variscan orogeny. |
| Towards the end of the orogeny, several north-south-trending strike-slip faults were active. |
| The collision of North America with the Avalon microcontinent during the Devonian Period caused the Acadian orogeny. |
| The tectonic events began with the Penobscottian orogeny in the Cambrian Period that affected northwestern to north-central Maine. |
