Geology and Minerals

Geology of Germany

The geology of Germany is heavily influenced by several phases of orogeny in the Paleozoic and the Cenozoic, by sedimentation in shelf seas and epicontinental seas and on plains in the Permian and Mesozoic as well as by the Quaternary glaciations.

Also on this shelf

See also

• ▸Lanín
• ▸Harriet Morgan
• ▸Capitanian mass extinction event

Uncatalogued shelf

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