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单词 variscan
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Variscanadj.

/vəˈrɪskən/
Etymology: < Latin Variscī (see quot. 1906) + -an suffix, after German variscisch (E. Suess Antlitz der Erde (1888) II. iii. ii. 131).
Geology.
Of, pertaining to, or designating a mountain system that formerly extended from southern Ireland and Britain through central France and Germany to southern Poland, or the orogeny that gave rise to it during late Palæozoic time.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > tectonization or diastrophism > [adjective] > orogenesis > specific
hercynian1895
Laramide1895
Caledonian1903
Armorican1906
Variscan1906
Taconic1908
Saalian1931
Pfalzian1932
Shamvaian1947
pan-African1964
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > range > spec
Alpine?a1475
Pyrene?a1475
Riphaean1555
Pyrenean?1556
Pyrenee1590
hercynian1598
Alpic1611
Appalachian1672
Carpathian1673
Rhipaean1703
Alleghenian1740
Altaic1762
Altaian1780
Balkan1785
Uralian1801
Lepontine1802
Altai1824
Dinaric1833
Andean1845
Alpigene1847
Lepontian1857
Uralic1861
Himalayan1866
Cordilleran1891
Andine1900
Armorican1906
Variscan1906
1906 H. B. C. Sollas & W. J. Sollas tr. E. Suess Face of Earth II. iii. ii. 111 It is thus fitting that the name of this range, which includes most of the German horsts, should be borrowed from the land of the Varisci or the Vogtland; and we shall name it therefore the Variscan range, from the Latin name of Hof in Bavaria (Curia Variscorum).
1908 H. B. C. Sollas & W. J. Sollas tr. E. Suess Face of Earth III. iv. viii. 346 The Carnic mountains are a chain..and of Variscan age.
1956 W. Edwards in D. L. Linton Sheffield i. 22 Earth-movements of the Variscan orogeny were already in action during deposition of the Lower Carboniferous.
1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles xi. 255 The building of the Variscan mountain chains profoundly affected the geography of Europe, both in the distribution of land and sea and climatically.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VI. 14/1 The European geosyncline is called the Variscan.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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