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The geology of Europe is varied and complex, and gives rise to the wide variety of landscapes found across the continent, from the Scottish Highlands to the rolling plains of Hungary. Europe's most significant feature is the dichotomy between highland and mountainous Southern Europe and a vast, partially underwater, northern plain ranging from ...
The Motagua Fault, which crosses through Guatemala, is a transform boundary between the southern edge of the North American plate and the northern edge of the Caribbean plate. New Zealand's Alpine Fault is another active transform boundary. The Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault which runs through the Jordan River Valley in the Middle East.
A geologic map or geological map is a special-purpose map made to show various geological features. Rock units or geologic strata are shown by color or symbols. Bedding planes and structural features such as faults , folds , are shown with strike and dip or trend and plunge symbols which give three-dimensional orientations features.
The "Defining markers" column lists the evidence in the rock used to define the boundary. (Ideally, these are applicable in rock sections worldwide.) Most of the boundaries rely on the fossil record (biologic), paleomagnetic data (magnetic), and/or climate data determined by carbon and oxygen isotopes.
Major lithostratigraphic units of northwest Europe with the ICS's geologic timescale of the Triassic. [ 1 ] The Lias Group or Lias is a lithostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata ) found in a large area of western Europe, including the British Isles , the North Sea , the Low Countries and the north of Germany .
The northern edge is a transform boundary with the Eurasian plate, forming the North Anatolian Fault zone (NAFZ). Eurasian and Anatolian plates. Research indicates that the Anatolian plate is rotating counterclockwise as it is being pushed west by the Arabian plate, impeded from any northerly movement by the Eurasian plate. [8]
This is the boundary between materials from the (former) European and Adriatic plate plates. South of this line are folded and thrust units of the Southern Alps. North of the Periadriatic seam, rocks from three main palaeogeographic "domains" are found: the Helvetic or Dauphinois, the Penninic and the Austroalpine domains. This subdivision is ...
Geology of Europe by country (56 C, 2 P) Stratigraphy of Europe (24 C, 17 P)- ... Pages in category "Geology of Europe" The following 32 pages are in this category ...