• The Hallandian-Danopolonian event was an orogeny and thermal event that affected Baltica in the Mesoproterozoic. The event metamorphosed pre-existing rocks...
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  • Belomorian Cadomian Caledonian Carpathian Dalslandian Gothian Grampian Hallandian-Danopolonian Hellenic Laxfordian Lopian Saamian Scandian Scourian Timanide Svecofennian...
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  • orogeny refers to the long series of linear deformation and mountain building events that raised the Ural Mountains, starting in the Late Carboniferous and Permian...
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    understand the glacial stability and threshold behaviors of these glacial surge events. While mechanisms are still poorly understood, surge frequency could be...
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  • with intense igneous activity that produced large granitoid plutons. The event lined up with the Katarchean, a period in which the Earth's crust approached...
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    terranes' participation in the Sveconorwegian orogeny is known as the Gothian event. Between 1050 and 980 million years ago the involvement of the Idefjorden...
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    60° South. The eastern end of Avalonia collided with Baltica at 30°S, an event which closed the Tornquist Sea, during the Late Ordovician. In Avalonia...
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  • the platform leading to the formation of the Dnieper-Donets Rift. This event was possibly caused by a cluster of mantle plumes. Grachev, A.F.; Nikolaev...
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    declared a World Heritage Site. The geological detail follows the major events in Ireland's past based on the geological timescale. The oldest known Irish...
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  • The Cadomian Orogeny was a tectonic event or series of events in the late Neoproterozoic, about 650–550 Ma, which probably included the formation of mountains...
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    Oncken (1997); Franke (2000) Franke, W.; 1992: Phanerozoic structures and events in central Europe, in: Blundell, D.J.; Freeman, R. & Mueller, S. (eds.):...
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    Murrell, G.R.; Andriessen, P.A.M. (2004). "Unravelling a long-term multi-event thermal record in the cratonic interior of southern Finland through apatite...
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    ridges today and the geological history, plate tectonics, and geological events that created them. The basement of the North Sea was formed in an intraplate...
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    Belomorian Cadomian Caledonian Carpathian Dalslandian Gothian Grampian Hallandian-Danopolonian Hellenic Laxfordian Lopian Saamian Scandian Scourian Timanide Svecofennian...
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  • Hellenic orogeny is a collective noun referring to multiple mountain building events that shaped the topography of the southern margin of Eurasia into what is...
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    epicenter within the Upper Rhine Graben is the most damaging historical seismic event known from central Europe. The term Mediterranean-Mjosa Zone (Mittelmeer-Mjösen-Zone)...
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    in the late Cretaceous, continuing through to the early Palaeocene. This event is interpreted to be a precursor to the break-up of the North Atlantic....
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  • Early Pliocene, rapid subsidence occurred at the foreland. This subsidence event occurred simultaneously with a major rise in Mediterranean sea level, during...
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    Special Paper 230, pp. 67–90. Franke, W.; 1992: "Phanerozoic structures and events in central Europe", in: Blundell, D. J.; Freeman, R. & Mueller, S. (eds...
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  • shatter cones and many local thrusts in the basement still document this event. Structurally the Massif Central consists of stacked metamorphic basement...
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    Great Glen is the most seismically active area of Britain, but the last event of any size was in 1901. The oldest rocks of Scotland are the Lewisian gneisses...
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    appears irregular in many places and is fragmented by the many geologic events; nevertheless, the patterns are discernable by geologists, who have published...
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    coastline continues to erode at a geologically rapid rate. Recent flooding events leave geological evidence such as the Bristol Channel floods in 1607. The...
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    anoxic events have been called Bonarelli event (OAE2 at 93.5 million years ago) (caused by volcanic eruptions in the Caribbean), the Mid-Cenomanian Event at...
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    Timanian (or Baikalian) orogeny, a late Neoproterozoic mountain-building event coincident with the Cadomian orogeny in western Europe. The Timan-Pechora...
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    Oravic). During the release of tension within the Alpine collision tectonic events, the stress was released to the flanks of the thrust belt, which caused...
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  • The Scandian orogeny was an orogeny mountain building event, preserved in the rocks of eastern Greenland, eastern Svalbard, northern Scotland and much...
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  • Baltica, which now forms the stable East European Craton. The sequence of events in the Mid-Norwegian Shelf is perhaps most relevant to the geological history...
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    string of microcontinents Franke, W.; 1992: Phanerozoic structures and events in central Europe, in: Blundell, D.J.; Freeman, R. & Mueller, S. (eds.):...
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    Belomorian Cadomian Caledonian Carpathian Dalslandian Gothian Grampian Hallandian-Danopolonian Hellenic Laxfordian Lopian Saamian Scandian Scourian Timanide Svecofennian...
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