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Events of the Stenian

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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.
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 (2017). "Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis" (PDF). Geology. 46 (2): 135–138. doi:10.1130/G39829.1.
^ 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". From Rodinia to Pangea: The Lithotectonic Record of the Appalachian Region. doi:10.1130/2010.1206(02). ISBN 9780813712062.
^ Swanson-Hysell, Nicholas L.; Ramezani, Jahandar; Fairchild, Luke M.; Rose, Ian R. (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. ISSN 0016-7606.