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Variscan, a. Geol.|vəˈrɪskən|
[f. L. Varisc-ī (see quot. 19061) + -an, after G. variscisch (E. Suess Antlitz der Erde (1888) II. iii. ii. 131).]
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.
1906H. B. C. & W. J. Sollas tr. 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). 1908Ibid. III. iv. viii. 346 The Carnic mountains are a chain..and of Variscan age. 1956W. Edwards in D. L. Linton Sheffield i. 22 Earth-movements of the Variscan orogeny were already in action during deposition of the Lower Carboniferous. 1969Bennison & 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. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VI. 14/1 The European geosyncline is called the Variscan. |