Caledonian orogeny
Caledonian orogeny Major mountain-building episode which took place during the Lower Palaeozoic Era. The orogeny affected Greenland, Ireland, Scotland, and Scandinavia, and was associated with the closure of the Iapetus Ocean between the old continents of Laurentia, Gondwana, and Baltica.
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The terms orogeny and orogenesis are synonymous for tectonic processes that result in the formation of mountain chains . Orogeny and orogenes… Antarctic Ocean , Antarctic Ocean Iapetus Ocean , Iapetus Ocean (proto-Atlantic) The late Precambrian and early Palaeozoic ocean that lay between Baltica and Laurentia. The oceanic crust and upper ma… Subduction Zone , Subduction zones occur at collision boundaries where at least one of the colliding lithospheric plates contains oceanic crust . In accord with plate… Ocean , Oceans are large bodies of salt water that surround Earth's continents and occupy the basins between them. The four major oceans of the world are the… Seamounts , seamount Isolated, submarine mountain rising more than 1000 m above the ocean floor. The sharp, crested summits of seamounts are usually 1000–2000 m…
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