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Variscan orogeny

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The Variscan or Hercynian orogeny is a hypothetical sequents of events in geologic history that account for a group of highlands similar in age, stratigraphy, composition and fossils, called the Variscan Belt. It includes the mountains of Portugal and western Spain, southwestern Ireland and England, in France the Ardennes, Massif Central and Vosges, Corsica, Sardinia, in Germany the Black Forest and Harz Mountains, and in Czechoslovakia the Bohemian Massif. (More to follow)

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