Tertiary Rocks in North America Today

Explore: the Tertiary in Any state Alberta, CanadaBritish Columbia, CanadaManitoba, CanadaNew Brunswick, CanadaNewfoundland and Labrador, CanadaNorthwest Territories, CanadaNova Scotia, CanadaNunavut, CanadaOntario, CanadaPrince Edward Island, CanadaQuebec, CanadaSaskatchewan, CanadaYukon Territory, CanadaNortheast region, MexicoNorthwest region, MexicoSoutheast region, MexicoSouthwest region, MexicoAlabama, USAlaska, USArizona, USArkansas, USCalifornia, USColorado, USConnecticut, USDelaware, USFlorida, USGeorgia, USHawaii, USIdaho, USIllinois, USIndiana, USIowa, USKansas, USKentucky, USLouisiana, USMaine, USMaryland, USMassachusetts, USMichigan, USMinnesota, USMississippi, USMissouri, USMontana, USNebraska, USNevada, USNew Hampshire, USNew Jersey, USNew Mexico, USNew York, USNorth Carolina, USNorth Dakota, USOhio, USOklahoma, USOregon, USPennsylvania, USRhode Island, USSouth Carolina, USSouth Dakota, USTennessee, USTexas, USUtah, USVermont, USVirginia, USWashington, USWest Virginia, USWisconsin, USWyoming, US

or world paleogeography of the Any periodQuaternaryTertiaryCretaceousJurassicTriassicPermianCarboniferousDevonianSilurianOrdovicianCambrianPrecambrian

The glaciers that swept down over the northern states in the Quaternary have removed many of the Tertiary deposits in these states. But in other places around the country, exposures of Tertiary rocks are very common. Large exposures can be found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, Cascade Mountains, and Olympic Peninsula.