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English: Geologic structures of the Hercynian/Variscan orogeny in western Europe. North Africa, Iberia, Corsica and Sardinia are shown in their Permian positions. Coloured areas are Hercynian massifs, regions where Hercynian rocks and structures crop out.
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Eigenes Werk (own work) This map is based on information and maps in the following publications:

  • Franke, W.; 1992: Phanerozoic structures and events in central Europe, in: Blundell, D.J.; Freeman, R. & Mueller, S. (eds.): A Continent Revealed - The European Geotraverse, 297 pp., Cambridge University Press, ISBN 052142948X, pp. 164-179.
  • Franke, W.; 2000: The mid-European segment of the Variscides: tectonostratigraphic units, terrane boundaries and plate tectonic evolution, Geological Society of London, Special Publications 179, pp. 35-61.
  • Matte, P.; 2001: The Variscan collage and orogeny (480±290 Ma) and the tectonic defnition of the Armorica microplate: a review, Terra Nova 13, 122-128.
  • von Raumer, J.F.; Stampfli, G.M. & Bussy, F.; 2003: Gondwana-derived microcontinents — the constituents of the Variscan and Alpine collisional orogens, Tectonophysics 365, pp. 7–22.
  • Walter, R.; 2003: Erdgeschichte – Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane, 325 pp., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin (5th ed.).
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