| Kaskaskia sequence | Absaroka sequence | Zuni sequence |
| Caledonian orogeny | Acadian orogeny | Chattanooga Shale |
| Catskill clastic wedge | Avalon (Avalonia) terrane | Pocono Group |
| Antler orogeny | Allegheny orogeny | Ouachita deformation |
| Ellesmere Orogeny | Sonoma Orogeny | Pangea |
| Piedmont Province | Blue Ridge Province | Valley and Ridge Province |
| Ancestral Rocky Mountains | Paradox Basin | Zuni-Fort Defiance Uplift |
| Chattanooga Shale | Novaculites | Williston basin |
| eustacy | cyclothem | coal beds |
| Marathon Basin | Capitan Limestone | TEXAS Oil Reserves |
| Icehouse | Greenhouse | Permian-Triassic Boundary |
| suture zone | rift zone | Newark Group |
| Fault-block mountains | Louann Salt | Smackover Limestone |
| Allochthonous terranes | obduction | accretionary tectonics |
| Sonoma orogeny | Chinle Formation | Najavo Sandstone |
| Niobrara Chalk | coccoliths | Nevadan orogeny |
| Sevier orogeny | décollement | Laramide Orogeny |
| Sundance Sea | Western Interior Seaway | Morrison Formation |
| Thecodonts | phytosaurians | Diapsids |
| Synapsids | saurischians | sauropods |
| theropods | ornithischians | ornithopods |
| stegosaurians | ankyolsaursians | ceratopsians |
| pterosaurs | pterodactyls | pteranodons |
| placodonts | nothosaurs | plesiosaurs |
| mosasaurs | archosaurs | Avian Reptiles |
| Homologous structures | Analogous structures | Archaeopteryx |
| Mammalian skull features | Monotremes | Marsupials |
| Placentals | Bolide-impact theory | shocked quartz |
| Iridium anomaly | Deccan Traps | Tektites |