The Alpine orogeny or Alpide orogeny[dubious – discuss] is an orogenic phase in the Late Mesozoic (Eoalpine) and the current Cenozoic that has formed the...

Carboniferous Hercynian Orogeny Early Triassic Zagros rifting First (or early Oman) Alpine Orogeny Second (or late) Alpine Orogeny which led to the collection...

building. The Alpine orogeny occurred in ongoing cycles through to the Paleogene causing differences in folded structures, with a late-stage orogeny causing...

since. In between the zone of Alpine orogeny and North Sea Basin subsidence, highlands resulting from an earlier orogeny (Variscan) remained, such as the...

years ago) period, tectonic activity increased again – just as the Alpine orogeny (Alps, Carpathians etc.) slowly came to an end. In that time, parts...

stage of deformation during the Hercynian orogeny, but younger Alpine overprint is common. Alpine orogeny affected the area in several stages from Jurassic...

during the Alpine orogeny. A gap in these mountain chains in central Europe separates the Alps from the Carpathians to the east. Orogeny took place continuously...

distribution Alpine climate, climate that is typical to higher altitudes Alpine tundra, a type of natural region or biome Alpine orogeny, in geology Alpine Fault...

Himalayas. Hercynian orogeny - an orogeny that preceded the Cimmerian orogeny Alpine orogeny - an orogeny that succeeded the Cimmerian orogeny Golonka, J.; Embry...

developments to the southeast are partly hidden and overprinted by the Alpine orogeny. In the Alps a Variscan core is built by Mercantour, Pelvoux, Belledonne...

more recent ones have been eroded by wind, weather and water since the Alpine orogeny about 35 million years ago. The mountains' geological history began...

orogenies. Some orogenies encompass more than one continent and may have different names in each, and some very large orogenies include sub-orogenies...

feature belongs to a larger orogeny usually called the Gibraltar Arc, which represents the westernmost edge of the Alpine Orogeny. The geodynamic mechanisms...

composed of gneisses (originally fragments of the African Plate before the Alpine orogeny) from the Dent Blanche nappe, lying over ophiolites and sedimentary...

ridges over the entire Tethyan region, then "Alpine orogeny" is used collectively of all the orogenies required to create the Alpides, a definition that...

formed during the Miocene and was folded and metamorphosed during the Alpine orogeny around 60 million years ago. Thera is built upon a small non-volcanic...

Carpathian mountains were formed during the Alpine orogeny in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic by moving the ALCAPA (Alpine-Carpathian-Pannonian), Tisza and Dacia...

Adige/Südtirol and Friuli-Venezia Giulia Parent range Alps Geology Orogeny Alpine orogeny Age of rock Mostly Triassic Type of rock Sedimentary rocks, dolomite...

basins in the North Midlands associated with this rift complex. The Alpine Orogeny began 200 million years ago and continues to the present day. It comprises...

The Caledonian orogeny was a mountain-building cycle recorded in the northern parts of the British Isles, the Scandinavian Caledonides, Svalbard, eastern...

minerals together with younger marine sedimentary rocks uplifted by the Alpine orogeny. Most of Austria's rocks formed in the last 540 million years, during...

Alps, Carpathians, Dinarides, Taurus, and Elburz mountains during the Alpine orogeny. During the late Miocene, the Paratethys gradually disappeared, and...

the Oligocene onward, tensions in the European crust caused by the Alpine orogeny to the south cause a new, more modest phase of extension. Some grabens...

the lakes of glacial origin of the Alpine type is Lago di Pilato. The Apennines were created in the Apennine orogeny beginning in the early Neogene (about...

Netherlands. Alpine orogeny started as early as the Mesozoic with the formation of the Alpide belt, some 200 Mya. Even earlier orogenies relevant for...

are attributed to the Caledonian and Hercynian orogenies of the late Palaeozoic Era. The Alpine orogeny caused extensive folding and faulting of Mesozoic...

England, including the Chalk, were gently folded during a phase of the Alpine Orogeny to produce the Weald-Artois Anticline, a dome-like structure with a...

island's rocks. It was formed mainly by tectonic uplift during the early Alpine orogeny, caused by the collision of the African and Eurasian plates towards...

the Eastern Alps (AVE) developed by the German, Austrian and South Tyrol Alpine Clubs. It should not be confused with the term Bavarian Prealps either....

plate tectonics, its formation is a result of a continental collision or orogeny along the convergent boundary (Main Himalayan Thrust) between the Indo-Australian...