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Mauritanide Mountains

mountains, Africa

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geological history

  • Africa
    In Africa: The Paleozoic Era

    The Mauritanide mountain chain was compressed and folded at that time along the western margin of the West African craton from Morocco to Senegal. Elsewhere, major uplift or subsidence occurred, continuing until the end of the Triassic Period (i.e., about 201 million years ago). Those structures…

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  • Carboniferous paleogeography
    In Carboniferous Period: Significant geologic events

    …Hercynide Mountains (southern Europe), and Mauritanide Mountains (northern Africa). These events continued the creation of a supercontinent, Pangea, that would finally end in the Permian Period.

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