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2 unusual facts about Variscan orogeny


Érin

The Ternoise valley is the most northerly flowing in the syncline to the south of the Variscan front.

Nohant-Vic

Just to the south of La Châtre, some twelve kilometres south of Vic, the Variscan-faulted rocks of the Massif Central begin with Cambrian/Ordovician migmatite.


Aber Dinlle Fault

It was reactivated as a normal fault in the Carboniferous with a downthrow to the northwest and again reactivated as a reverse fault during Late Carboniferous inversion associated with the Variscan Orogeny.

Berw Fault

There are no indications of inversion during the Variscan Orogeny, but the fault was reactivated in a normal sense during the Permian and Triassic and again during the Cenozoic with a sinistral strike-slip sense.


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