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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.
This is a list of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points. Since 1977, Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (abbreviated GSSPs) are internationally agreed upon reference points on stratigraphic sections of rock which define the lower boundaries of stages on the geologic time scale .
Subduction – A geological process at convergent tectonic plate boundaries where one plate moves under the other; Tectonic uplift – Geologic uplift of Earth's surface that is attributed to plate tectonics; Thrust tectonics – Concept in structural geology
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.
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 ...
A geological contact is a boundary which separates one rock body from another. [1] A contact can be formed during deposition, by the intrusion of magma, [2] or through faulting or other deformation of rock beds that brings distinct rock bodies into contact. [3]
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.