Mesozoic folding (in Cimmerian English literature) is the era of folding, in which many mountain ranges appeared, which are now located in Central Asia.
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General Description
The era is believed to have begun 200–150 million years ago (for the most part, the Jurassic period ), when the Cimmerian Plate collided with the southern coast of Kazakhstan and the North and South China continents, covering the ancient Tethys Paleo-Ocean. This plate consisted of what is now known as Turkey , Iran , Tibet and the western part of Southeast Asia . Most of the northern border of the plate was formed by mountain ranges that were higher than the modern Himalayas, but subsequently destroyed. Folding continued until the Cretaceous and early Cenozoic [1] .
In Russia
Mesozoids in Russia are mountain ranges of the Northeast (Momsky, Chersky, Verkhoyansk), as well as Primorye ( Sikhote-Alin ) [1] .
See also
- Hercynian folding
- Alpine folding
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Brief Geological Dictionary for Schoolchildren