Volcanism above the subduction zone created a cordillera-type mountain chain, the Saxothuringian / Armorican basin, developed south of the Rhenohercynian basin.
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The promontory and the slightly hilly landscape around Laval are traces of the Armorican Massif, an old range of mountains that forms the Breton peninsula.
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He decided to travel to the Armorican peninsula and set off with a group of monks, his mission to convert the local people to Christianity.
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The South Armorican Zone is considered part of the core of the Hercynian orogeny, comparable to the Moldanubian Zone of southern Germany and central Europe.
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Secondly P . J . Treloar considers that the North Armorican Massif was put together from a series of terranes, their joins are the shear zones.
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Illtud, said to have been an Armorican by descent, spent the first period of his religious life as a disciple of St . Cadoc at Llancarvan.
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The Ardennes is an old mountain formed during the Hercynian orogeny; in France similar formations are the Armorican Massif, the Massif Central, and the Meuse.
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The northern parts of the Armorican Massif have less intrusive rocks, although a small zone in the northwest of Brittany ( L�on Zone ) forms an exception.
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According to the prevailing theory, it took some 320 million years of the Variscan orogeny for the continental collision of Laurasia and Gondwana to crush the Armorican continent.
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At the close of the Variscan orogeny, Iberia was still connected to northwestern France ( the Armorican Massif ) and most likely was a northwestern prolongation of Aquitania.
