Some of this uplift was along old lines of weakness left from the Caledonian and Variscan Orogenies long before.
12.
The Pannonian Basin took shape through Miocenian thinning and subsidence of crust structures formed during Late Paleozoic Variscan orogeny.
13.
Along the major thrust fault of the Variscan orogeny, there are over 30 thermal springs in Aachen and Burtscheid.
14.
These sediments were fractured and folded due to the actions of the Variscan Orogeny and extensive areas emerged from the sea.
15.
The Variscan Orogeny occurred as the European Hunic Terrane ( split off from Gondwana ) and Laurentia-Baltica continents collided.
16.
Although the Silurian rocks were deformed in the Variscan Orogeny, the rocks in this sheet have only low grade metamorphism.
17.
In North America, the Taconic orogenies peaked, which were contemporary with the Bretonic phase of the Variscan orogeny in Europe.
18.
The Rheic Ocean or Proto-Tethys Ocean was eliminated during the Hercynian / Variscan orogeny, and the Pangea supercontinent formed.
19.
The contact between the two is a thrust over which the Moldanubian Zone moved over the Saxothuringian Zone during the Variscan Orogeny.
20.
The mountain has a characteristically truncated cone shape, resulting from the differential erosion which followed its formation during the Variscan orogeny.
