| 11. | The Mittelgebirge seem to correspond more or less to a stretch of the Hercynian mountains.
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| 12. | "Hercynian ", on the other hand, derives from the Hercynian Forest.
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| 13. | "Hercynian ", on the other hand, derives from the Hercynian Forest.
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| 14. | The whole sequence was deformed, metamorphosed and intruded by felsic magmas during the Hercynian orogeny.
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| 15. | Basement rock was formed during the Hercynian orogeny when a strong regional metamorphism affected the area.
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| 16. | During the Hercynian orogeny, about 320 Ma, all of these units were strongly deformed.
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| 17. | The Hercynian orogeny was the result of a continent-continent collision between Laurasia and Gondwana.
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| 18. | The basin closed when these Caledonian deformed terranes were accreted again to Laurussia during the Hercynian orogeny.
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| 19. | The core of the Iberian Peninsula consists of a Hercynian cratonic block known as the Iberian Massif.
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| 20. | These were the mountains of the Hercynian chain, formed at the same time as these deposits.
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