The European Cenozoic Rift System (ECRIS) is a 1,100 km (680 mi) long system of rifts formed in the foreland of the Alps as the lithosphere responded...

France–Germany border. It forms part of the European Cenozoic Rift System, which extends across Central Europe. The Upper Rhine Graben formed during the...

southwestern Germany, known as the Upper Rhine valley, part of the European Cenozoic Rift System The Taupō Volcanic Zone in the North Island of New Zealand The...

Europe European Cenozoic Rift System Migoń, Piotr; Lidmar-Bergström, Karna (2002). "Deep weathering through time in central and northwestern Europe:...

Scientists know less about ocean ridges than they do the planets of the solar system. There is another triple junction where the Eurasian plate meets the Anatolian...

of Pangea. When Pangea broke up, Avalonia's remains were divided by the rift which became the Atlantic Ocean. When the term "Avalon" was first coined...

Tasmania, Australia Guanabara Graben, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil European Cenozoic Rift System Fossa (geology) – Long, narrow, shallow depressionPages displaying...

Eger Graben is part of the European Cenozoic Rift System and was created geologically on the same principle as the Rhine Rift Valley. It was formed by the...

graben structure that formed during the Eocene as part of the European Cenozoic Rift System. It forms the Limagne plain in the Massif Central and is filled...

(January 1982). "Western extension of the Iberian-European plate-boundary during early Cenozoic (Pyrenean) convergence: a new model". Marine Geology...

discuss] is an orogenic phase in the Late Mesozoic (Eoalpine) and the current Cenozoic that has formed the mountain ranges of the Alpide belt. The Alpine orogeny...

The Alps form part of a Cenozoic orogenic belt of mountain chains, called the Alpide belt, that stretches through southern Europe and Asia from the Atlantic...

London-Brabant Massif. The Lower Rhine Graben, part of the European Cenozoic Rift System, which has been tectonically active since the Oligocene, affects...

Irish Sea. A basin developed in the Hampshire region around this time. Rifting occurred within and around Great Britain, prior to the breakup of the super-continent...

between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The platform is crossed by a rift zone formed of three grabens: the Pantelleria graben, that of Malta, and...

Dnieper-Donets Rift, transects Sarmatia, dividing it into the Ukrainian Shield and the Voronezh Massif. The southwestern boundary is known as the Trans European Suture...

depression originated as a series of interconnected rifts that were not active enough to split the East European Craton. Subsidence in the southern parts was...

M. (1996). "Magmatism and the geodynamics of rifting of the Pripyat-Dnieper-Donets rift, East European Platform". Tectonophysics. 268 (1–4): 65–81. doi:10...

to the American Museum of Natural History, the Anatolian transform fault system is "probably the most active in the world". The East Anatolian Fault, a...

Dnieper–Donets Rift Ebro Basin European Cenozoic Rift System Hellenic Trench Limagne Graben Mezen Basin Molasse Basin Moscow Basin North Sea Basin Oslo Rift Pannonian...

Tectonic Framework of Europe. Geological Survey of Finland. ISBN 9516909213. Retrieved 31 August 2015. "Landscapes for living!". European Landscapes. Geological...

the southeast of the Netherlands are caused by active rifts of the European Cenozoic Rift System. The 1992 Roermond earthquake in the southeastern province...

ECRIS may refer to: European Cenozoic Rift System European Criminal Records Information System This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...

metres (−433 ft). The depression is in the northeastern part of the East European Plain and covers parts of Kazakhstan and Russia. In Kazakhstan it covers...

Atlantic Ocean. The Hercynian fold belt is mostly buried by Mesozoic and Cenozoic cover rocks to the east but nevertheless outcrops through the Iberian Chain...

Hellenic subduction zone. This has resulted in extensive normal faulting and rifting, as well as the formation of a back-arc basin. This environment has created...

Middle Paleozoic the rift system was reactivated resulting in intrusion of alkaline magmas. In the Late Cenozoic the rift system was reactivated again...

scientists believe the hotspot beneath Iceland could have contributed to the rifting of the supercontinent Pangaea and the subsequent formation of the North...

microcontinent was a local ocean, which was subducted and closed in turn: in the Cenozoic the Vardar, 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) subducted; the Pindos, 500 kilometres...

back for millions of years, related to the development of the European Cenozoic Rift System, which was caused by the collision between the African and Eurasian...