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    orogeny). The sedimentary basin, no longer a single drainage basin, is a large sag in the craton, bordered by the Armorican Massif to the west, the Ardennes-Brabant...
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    The Armorican terrane, Armorican terrane assemblage, or simply Armorica, was a microcontinent or group of continental fragments that rifted away from Gondwana...
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  • Schwelle) and, to the west and northwest, by the Armorican and London-Brabant Massifs. To the north the basin is bordered by the highlands of Ireland and Scotland...
    2 KB (307 words) - 18:34, 19 December 2017
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    In the Middle Devonian a second basin, the Saxothuringian/Armorican basin, developed south of the Rhenohercynian basin. To the west some crustal convergence...
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  • The Armorican Tumulus culture is a Bronze Age culture, located in the western part of the Armorican peninsula of France. It is known through more than...
    17 KB (1,746 words) - 00:18, 5 July 2024
  • Vendée, the southernmost part of the Armorican Massif. The Aquitaine Basin is a very asymmetric foreland basin. It reaches its deepest part of 11 km...
    48 KB (6,285 words) - 14:05, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geology of France
    France is commonly divided into the Paris Basin, the Armorican Massif, the Massif Central, the Aquitaine Basin, the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Côte languedocienne...
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    The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to the first centuries...
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  • The Ebro Basin was a foreland basin that formed to the south of the Pyrenees during the Paleogene. It was also limited to the southeast by the Catalan...
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  • The Timan-Pechora Basin is a sedimentary basin located between Timan Ridge and the Ural Mountains in northern Russia. The basin contains oil and gas fields...
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    Glamorgan. Its effects are present in France from Brittany, below the Paris Basin to the Ardennes, the Massif Central, the Vosges and Corsica. The Variscan...
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  • 71°N 46°E / 71°N 46°E / 71; 46 The Barents Basin or East Barents Basin is a sedimentary basin underlying the eastern half of the Barents Sea. Lying...
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  • Since then the basin has been deepened mainly through subsidence caused by extensional tectonics. In the northern part of the Baltic Sea basin, including...
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  • Thumbnail for Atlantic Bronze Age
     1000 BC Dún Aonghasa hillfort, Ireland Magacela stele Bronze Age Europe Armorican Tumulus culture Argaric culture Bronze Age Britain Bronze Age Iberia Bronze...
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    the Mid-European Variscides. The names shown are in their German forms. Armorican Massif Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event Geologic time scale Geology...
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  • The Moscow Basin is a major sedimentary basin and tectonic structural feature in the stable East European Craton. It has been widely studied by Russian...
    2 KB (250 words) - 18:41, 13 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Rhône culture
    meaning. Dress pins, 2000-1600 BC Unetice culture Bronze Age Britain Armorican Tumulus culture Polada culture Pyrenean Bronze Ottomány culture Wietenberg...
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    zone, for example the Lizard complex in Cornwall or the Léon Zone of the Armorican Massif (Brittany). In central Europe the Saxothuringian Zone is situated...
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    Although most of the Cotentin Peninsula belongs to the Armorican Massif, the Plain is part of the Paris Basin. Argillaceous limestone from the Sinemurian contributes...
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    The Cotentin peninsula is part of the Armorican Massif (with the exception of the Plain lying in the Paris Basin) and lies between the estuary of the Vire...
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