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    The Sveconorwegian orogeny was an orogenic system active 1140 to 960 million years ago and currently exposed as the Sveconorwegian orogenic belt in southwestern...
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    reworked by the Sveconorwegian orogeny just as the western parts of the Transscandinavian Igneous Belt has. The Svecofennian orogeny involved the accretion...
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    breakup beginning c. 800 Ma. Sveconorwegian orogeny ends. Grenville Orogeny tapers off in North America. Lake Ruker / Nimrod Orogeny in Antarctica, 1,000 ± 150 Ma...
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    north-northwest in the western part of the Svecokarelian orogen. The Sveconorwegian Orogeny is 500 kilometers long and 180 kilometers wide. West of its frontal...
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    volcanites (like the previous Svecofennian orogeny), (1.75–1.5 Ga) Sveconorwegian orogeny – Orogenic belt in southwestern Sweden and southern Norway – Essentially...
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  • Igneous Province – formation of Copper Creek deposits c. 1,250 Ma – Sveconorwegian Orogeny (to c. 900 Ma) begins: essentially a reworking of previously formed...
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    rocks of Norway, the Neoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic Gothian and Sveconorwegian, the Palaeoproterozoic Svecokarelian and the intervening Transscandinavian...
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    deformed during the Sunsás orogeny. It has been suggested that the Late Mesoproterozoic–Early Neoproterozoic aged Sveconorwegian Orogen in Fennoscandia could...
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    coast is made up by Bohus granite formed in the aftermath of the Sveconorwegian orogeny. In detail these granites have been eroded as to contain abundant...
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    The Caledonian orogeny was a mountain-building cycle recorded in the northern parts of the British Isles, the Scandinavian Caledonides, Svalbard, eastern...
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  • Gneiss Region was intruded by migmatites and granites during the Sveconorwegian orogeny. Askheim, Svein. "Gneisregionen". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Store norske...
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  • I.H.C.; Bingen, B.; Hendriks, B.W.H. (2011). "The Grenvillian–Sveconorwegian orogeny in Fennoscandia: Back-thrusting and extensional shearing along the...
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  • million years ago. It precedes the younger Sveconorwegian orogeny that has overprinted much of it. The Gothian orogeny formed along a subduction zone and resulted...
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    The Alpine orogeny or Alpide orogeny[dubious – discuss] is an orogenic phase in the Late Mesozoic (Eoalpine) and the current Cenozoic that has formed...
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    glacial retreat from the last glacial maximum, and rocks from the Sveconorwegian Orogeny. It it the first UGG in Scandinavia. The international road E18...
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    granites cooled about 920 million years ago after the end of the Sveconorwegian orogeny. The intrusion of the Bohus granite was the last in a period of...
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    up the limit of deformation and metamorphism attributed to the Sveconorwegian orogeny. In the tectonic definition it is a zone of strong deformation that...
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    orogeny in Antarctica; the Gothian and Sveconorwegian orogenies in Europe; and the Picuris and Grenville orogenies in North America. The era saw the development...
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    Amazonia collided with Laurentia in the 1.1–0.9 Ga Grenville-Sveconorwegian-Sunsás orogenies to form the supercontinent Rodinia. When the break-up of Rodinia...
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  • The Uralian orogeny refers to the long series of linear deformation and mountain building events that raised the Ural Mountains, starting in the Late...
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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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    extensional tectonics. Bohus granite Gothian orogeny Jotnian Satakunta dike swarms Sveconorwegian orogeny Hageskov, Bjørn; Pedersen, Svend (1988). "Rb-Sr...
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    describes a fold belt of west and central Europe, formed during the Hercynian orogeny (about 350 to 280 million years ago). The zone consists of folded and thrust...
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    during the Sveconorwegian orogeny, mafic rocks (gabbro-diorite) were emplaced. Most of the gabbro has been affected by the Sveconorwegian orogeny and became...
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  • The Lopian orogeny (also known as the Rebolian orogeny) was a mountain building event that affected the Baltic Shield during the Archean, between 2.9...
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    terrain on which the Jotnian sandstone deposited was disturbed by the Sveconorwegian orogeny in western Sweden about 1,000 million years ago and then begun to...
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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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    to the particular deformation, tectonics and metamorphism of the Sveconorwegian orogeny about 1100 to 990 million years ago. Characteristically the granites...
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    Ural-Mongolian epipaleozoic orogen and the northwestern part of the Pacific orogeny. The country's highest mountains, the Caucasus, are confined to younger...
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    Caledonian folding or in North America as an early phase in the Acadian orogeny. In the Carboniferous, the new continent and another terrane, Armorica...
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