Karelides

The Karelides are an ancient mountain chain located between Eastern Finland and Lapland. It forms the current hill zone of Eastern Finland and Lapland's arctic hills, splitting central Finland. The Karelides formed about 2000 million years ago, when thick sandstone formations were tilted and folded during an orogeny involving a collision of continental plates. Subsequent erosion has left a ridge of resistant quartzite, which has stood there for millions of years. The Karelides were once around 4km high but have been all but eroded to the point where only a peneplain remains.

The mountains in the north-west corner of Finnish Lapland belong to the more recent Scandinavian Mountains and are higher than other Finnish mountains. The third mountain group is the Svecofennides, which run from Southern Finland to Sweden.

• v
• t
• e

Geology of Europe

Countries

• Albania
• Andorra
• Armenia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
  • Faroe Islands
• Estonia
• Finland
  • Åland Islands
• France
• Georgia
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Italy (Sicily)
• Kazakhstan
• Kosovo
• Latvia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Montenegro
• Netherlands
• North Macedonia
• Norway
  • Jan Mayen
  • Svalbard
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russia
• San Marino
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom
  • England
  • Northern Ireland
  • Scotland
  • Wales
  • Gibraltar
  • Alderney
  • Guernsey
  • Jersey
  • Isle of Man

Geologic regions

Orogens	Acadian Alpine Belomorian Cadomian Caledonian Carpathian Dalslandian Gothian Grampian Hallandian-Danopolonian Hellenic Laxfordian Lopian Saamian Scandian Scourian Timanide Svecofennian Sveconorwegian Uralian Variscan
Mountain ranges	Alps Apennines Caucasus Dinaric Alps Harz Massif Central Ore Mountains Pyrenees Scandinavian Mountains Sudetes Urals Western Carpathians
Oceanic basins	Atlantic Ocean Arctic Ocean Bay of Biscay Black Sea Mediterranean Sea Norwegian Sea
Intracontinental basins and grabens	Aquitaine Basin Barents Basin Baltic Sea Basin Central Lowlands Dnieper–Donets Rift Ebro Basin European Cenozoic Rift System Hellenic Trench Limagne Graben Mezen Basin Molasse Basin Moscow Basin North Sea Basin Oslo Rift Pannonian Basin Paris Basin Peri-Caspian Depression Timan-Pechora Basin White Sea Rift System
Tectonic plates and microcontinents	Adriatic Plate Aegean Sea Plate Anatolian Plate Eurasian Plate Iberian Plate Jan Mayen Microcontinent Moesian Plate Pelso Plate Tisza Plate
Terranes	Armorican terrane Avalonia Baltica Cimmeria East European Craton Fennoscandian Craton Sarmatian Craton Volgo–Uralia

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

• Aeolian Islands
• Aggtelek
• Calanques de Piana
• Curonian Spit
• Dolomites
• Durmitor
• Geirangerfjord
• Giant's Causeway
• Glarus
• High Coast
• Jungfrau-Aletsch
• Jurassic Coast
• Komi
• Kvarken
• Laponia
• Messel Pit
• Meteora
• Monte Perdido
• Monte San Giorgio
• Mount Etna
• Nærøyfjord
• Pirin
• Plitvice
• Rhine Gorge
• Scandola
• Škocjan
• St Kilda
• Stevns Klint
• Surtsey
• Thingvellir

This article about a regional geological feature is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e