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tectonics followed, which characterised the present appearance of the German Central Uplands. These truncated Variscan mountains are usually strongly affected by
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and the economy; and the extent of these mountains in Russia, which are up to 1,900 metres high, is similar to that of the Appalachians.
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is one of the largest areas of truncated highland in the world. It extends in widths of 200 to 300 kilometre from the
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the Variscan mountains had been eroded into the so-called Permian peneplain and overlain by
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make the range and its surrounding area into one of the richest regions of America.
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that were originally often up to several thousand metres high. By contrast, their
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structures of truncated uplands are often more irregular than in the younger
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Ferdinand von Richthofen (1886), "II. Rumpfgebirge oder Abrasionsgebirge",
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ranges fall into the category of truncated uplands – for example the
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epochs about 350 to 250 million years ago. Already by the
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eroded
fold mountain
earth history
Ferdinand von Richthofen
Earth's crust
basement rocks
tectonics
peneplain
valley
fold mountains
tectonic
erosion
mountain ranges
plateaux
orographically

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