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Variscan orogeny and Welsh Borderland Fault System

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Difference between Variscan orogeny and Welsh Borderland Fault System

Variscan orogeny vs. Welsh Borderland Fault System

The Variscan or Hercynian orogeny is a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia) and Gondwana to form the supercontinent of Pangaea. The Welsh Borderland Fault System is a zone of faulting and associated folding which runs northeastwards through Wales from Pembrokeshire through Carmarthenshire and Powys into Shropshire in England.

Similarities between Variscan orogeny and Welsh Borderland Fault System

Variscan orogeny and Welsh Borderland Fault System have 3 things in common (in Unionpedia): Caledonian orogeny, Pembrokeshire, Terrane.

Caledonian orogeny

The Caledonian orogeny was a mountain building era recorded in the northern parts of Ireland and Britain, the Scandinavian Mountains, Svalbard, eastern Greenland and parts of north-central Europe.

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Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire (or; Sir Benfro) is a county in the southwest of Wales.

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Terrane

A terrane in geology, in full a tectonostratigraphic terrane, is a fragment of crustal material formed on, or broken off from, one tectonic plate and accreted or "sutured" to crust lying on another plate.

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Variscan orogeny and Welsh Borderland Fault System Comparison

Variscan orogeny has 112 relations, while Welsh Borderland Fault System has 14. As they have in common 3, the Jaccard index is 2.38% = 3 / (112 + 14).

References

This article shows the relationship between Variscan orogeny and Welsh Borderland Fault System. To access each article from which the information was extracted, please visit:

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