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These late Hercynian faults are generally assumed to be left-lateral strike-slip faults.
They are characteristic of the granitic uplands or moors of south-western England and of other Hercynian massifs in western and central Europe.
It is noteworthy that such high magnetic susceptibilities are absent in many of the other granitoids of the Hercynian belt.
The collision between Gondwana and Laurasia led to the formation of the Appalachian belt in North America and the Hercynian Mountains in Europe.
This makes them very unusual within the western European Hercynian belt and suggests a peculiar orogenic context.
Gold deposition was the most productive during the course of the Hercynian and Kimmerian metallogenic epochs and the Mezo-Cenozoic activation stage.
The core of the Iberian Peninsula consists of a Hercynian cratonic block known as the Iberian Massif.
The basin closed when these Caledonian deformed terranes were accreted again to Laurussia during the Hercynian orogeny.
Waved maritime heath grows over shallow podzolic soils which are underlain by Hercynian granite.
The geology consists of Hercynian granite with shallow podzolic soils on the higher ground and deeper sandy soils on the lower ground.
In addition, also near the Hercynian forest Caesar believed that the Celtic Tectosages had once lived.
Tacitus knows that the Helvetians once settled in the swath between Rhine, Main, and the Hercynian forest.
They are found where there are hills, and with them grow less frequent, for the Hercynian forest keeps close till it has seen the last of its native Chatti.
He accused Maroboduus of hiding in the Hercynian Forest while the other Germans fought for freedom, and accused Maroboduus of being the only king among the Germans.
Between the Cadomian and Hercynian periods, the region was submerged several times and the sea left fossils and sedimentary rocks, mostly schist and sandstone.
Examples from Classical Literature
The main event of the Hercynian orogeny in Europe was the consolidation of mountain-fold belts.
It is believed that the onset of generation was delayed until well after the Hercynian orogeny.
These Paleogene sediments rest directly on the Hercynian basement rocks, since Mesozoic rocks are absent.
The god Thor was blessed because he had driven them, armed as he was with his famous iron mace, all across the hercynian forest.
I mention this, because here was the regio Hercynia, where the hercynian forest commenced, and from which it received its name.
A poetic atmosphere from the hercynian woods and the monuments of ancient days surrounded our lives.
Moreover the hercynian Forest attends for a while its native Cattans, then suddenly forsakes them.
The two arcs together, which were undoubtedly formed at the same period, have been named by Bertrand the hercynian chain.
The breadth of this hercynian forest which has been referred to above is, to a quick traveler, a journey of nine days.
Beginning at the hercynian forest are the Catti, a robust and vigorous people, possessed also of much sense292 and ability.
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