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- The Variscan or Hercynian orogeny was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia)...
- Caledonian, Alleghenian, Mauritanide and Variscan orogenies. The eastern portions of the range are also called the Variscan Mountains. The Central Pangean Mountains...
- laying to the south. The Central Pangean Mountains were formed during the Variscan-Alleghanian-Ouachita orogeny. Today their remains stretch over 10,000 km...
- Permian (more than 300 million years old) and therefore deformed during the Variscan Orogeny. Parts of the Sudetes within the Bohemian M****if, Giant Mountains...
- northward and eventually collided to form the Appalachian, Caledonide, and Variscan orogens. West Avalonia, in North America, stretches from New England to...
- (2002). "Paleozoic evolution of pre-Variscan terranes: From Gondwana to the Variscan collision" (PDF). Variscan-Appalachian dynamics: The building of...
- of France. It developed since the Tri****ic over remnant uplands of the Variscan orogeny (Hercynian orogeny). The sedimentary basin, no longer a single...
- extension and thinning due to slab rollback of the African Plate. The Variscan orogeny was a result of the collision between the Laurussia and Gondwana...
- Siberia-Kazakhstania, the latter of which forms Laurasia and the Uralian orogeny. Variscan orogeny continues (these collisions created orogenies, and ultimately Pangaea)...
- include the Acadian Orogeny in North America and the beginning of the Variscan Orogeny in Europe. These early collisions preceded the formation of the...