GEOLOGY
SEDIMENTOLOGY
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Question
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The folds that affect the Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of the Hampshire Basin resulted from____
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opening of the North Atlantic Ocean
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the Alpine orogeny
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the Variscan orogeny
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opening of the English Channel
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The continental collisions of the Alpine Orogeny formed the Alps, Pyrenees and Carpathian Mountains in Europe.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Alpine orogeny is caused by the continents Africa, Arabia and India and the small Cimmerian Plate colliding (from the south) with Eurasia in the north.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alpine orogeny, mountain-building event that affected a broad segment of southern Europe and the Mediterranean region during the Paleogene and Neogene periods (65.5 million to 2.6 million years ago).
Detailed explanation-4: -It comprises a series of nappes consisting of metamorphic rocks intruded and overlain by postmetamorphic magmatic rocks and separated by (volcano)sedimentary basins.
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