File:West & Central Europe Early Devonian paleogeography EN.svg

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Lithofacies map of western and central Europe for the Lower Devonian

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English: Map of the palaeography and sedimentary facies of western and central Europe durnig the Early Devonian (around 410 million years ago). This map is based on the following sources:
  • Cocks, L.R.M. & Torsvik, T.H. 2006: European geography in a global context from the Vendian to the end of the Palaeozoic. In: Gee, D.G. & Stephenson, R.A. (eds.): European Lithosphere Dynamics. Geological Society of London Memoirs 32: 83–95.
  • Ford, D. & Golonka, J. 2003: Phanerozoic paleogeography, paleoenvironment and lithofacies maps of the circum-Atlantic margins, Marine and Petroleum Geology 20: 249-285.
  • McKerrow, W.S. & Scotese, C.R. 1990: Palaeozoic palaeography and biogeography, The Geological Society Memoir 12, The Geological Society, London, ISBN 0-9033174-9-4.
  • Stampfli, G.M.; von Raumer, J.F. & Borel, G.D. 2002: Paleozoic evolution of pre-Variscan terranes: From Gondwana to the Variscan collision, Geological Society of America Special Paper 364: 263-280.
  • Torsvik, T.H. & Cocks, L.R.M. 2004: Earth geography from 400 to 250 Ma: a palaeomagnetic, faunal and facies review, Journal of the Geological Society 161: 555-572.
  • Torsvik, T.H. & Cocks, L.R.M. 2017: Earth History and Palaeogeography, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-10532-4.
  • Ziegler, P.A. 1990: Geological Atlas of Western and Central Europe, Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij BV, ISBN 90-6644-125-9.
The lithofacies on the Euramerican continent (Laurentia + Baltica + Avalonia) are a simplification of Ziegler (1990). However, Ziegler's facies maps do not show the real positions of the Variscan terranes during the Devonian and Carboniferous. Ziegler also gave paleogeographic maps with a wide open (Rheic + Rhenohercynian) oceanic basin between those terranes and Euramerica. Reconstructions by Stampfli, von Raumer & Borel (2002) and Torsvik & Cocks (2004) show Amorica still both far to the south, and in the case of Armorica also far to the east. The position of the Mid-German High in this map is roughly in accordance with reconstructions by Torsvik & Cocks (2004) and Cocks & Torsvik (2006).
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current01:36, 18 April 2022Thumbnail for version as of 01:36, 18 April 2022815 × 567 (332 KB)Woudloper (talk | contribs)Put the Variscan/Hercynian terranes in a more realistic position according to more recent literature (which meant most of these units fall outside the map frame)
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