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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 ...
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Parts of the Trans-European Suture Zone (STZ, TEF and TTZ) are shown as bands of black colour between the North Sea and the Black Sea. The Trans-European Suture Zone (TESZ), also known as the Tornquist Zone , is the crustal boundary between the Precambrian East European Craton and the Phanerozoic orogens of South-Western Europe.
The most distinguishable physiographic aspect of the East European Craton is the extensive 3-km and more-thick Riphean (middle to late Proterozoic) sedimentary cover over its 3000-km-wide platform area (East European Platform, EEP, also known as the Russian Platform).
Most important structures and zones of the Hercynian orogeny in Europe. [ 1 ] The Iberian plate is a microplate typically grouped with the Eurasian plate that includes the microcontinent Iberia , Corsica , Sardinia , the Balearic Islands , the Briançonnais zone of the Penninic nappes of the Alps , and the portion of Morocco north of the High ...
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