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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 ...
Rocks formations and the Dedo de Deus (God's Finger) peak in the background, Serra dos Órgãos National Park, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil Raouché or Pigeons' Rock in Beirut, Lebanon Druid Arch, Canyonlands National Park, Utah, US View of Meteora, Greece Rock formations in Ongamira Valley, Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina Belogradchik Rocks, Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria "Jaws", an erosional fin ...
This is a selected list of notable, natural landscape features in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It includes isolated, scenic, or spectacular surface rock outcrops. These formations are usually the result of weathering and erosion sculpting the existing rock.
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 .
Pages in category "Geologic formations of Europe" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Rock of Gibraltar This page was last ...
The 290 km long escarpment [3] [5] can reach heights of 3.5 km and has a gradient of 45°, making it one of the largest and steepest seafloor features. [ 6 ] The submarine cliff comprises a sequence of carbonate and volcanic rock outcrops marking the eastern end of the Malta/Hyblean Plateau, [ 1 ] [ 6 ] which is part of the continental shelf ...
Rock formations of Europe by country (16 C) V. Volcanic plugs of Europe (4 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Rock formations of Europe" The following 9 pages are in this ...
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 ...