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It has coastlines in the west and northwest in the Atlantic basin, to the northeast the Arctic Basin, and to the southeast the Mediterranean Basin, including the Black Sea. To the south of the Middle European Plain stretch the central uplands and plateaus of Europe elevating to the peaks of the Alps, the Carpathian Mountains and the Balkan ...
Carpathian Mountains, a major mountain range in Central and Southern Europe Southern Carpathians, Romania; Tatra Mountains, Slovakia and Poland; Caucasus Mountains, which also separate Europe and Asia; Crimean Mountains; Maja Jezercë in Albania at 2,694m high is the highest peak of the Dinaric Alps. Dinaric Alps, a mountain range in the Balkans
Arctic Mountains Brooks Range: Arctic Foothills Northern Rocky Mountains Middle Rocky Mountains Southern Rocky Mountains Sierra Madre System: Sierra Madre Occidental: Lava (Rhyolite) Plateau Sonoran High Ranges Eastern Upland With Basins Sierra Madre Oriental: Northern section The High Sierra Cross Ranges Lower Ranges Sierra Madre del Sur ...
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 ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Mountain ranges of Europe by country (36 C) * Mountain ranges of the Alps (76 C, 197 P)
The Mesozoic basins were folded and thrust, to form the Iberian Ranges. 30 km of shortening occurred. The ranges trend north west – south east. In the northwest the ranges are buried under the Douro Basin. Sierra de Altomira is a north–south-oriented range separated from the Iberian Ranges by Tagus Basin. This was formed from a thrust sheet ...
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In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe north of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description of southern and western Europe, but was unaware of particulars of northern and eastern Europe.