Hunic superterrane

The Hunic superterrane is a terrane that is now attached to Europe and Asia. At the end of the Ordovician or beginning of the Silurian it separated from Gondwana and joined Laurasia at the beginning of the Carboniferous, at the time of the Variscan orogeny. Rather than being a single block, there were apparently two groups of blocks, the European Hunic terranes and the Asian Hunic terranes.^[1][2][3]

The collision with Laurasia (specifically, with the Kipchak Arc) formed what is now known as Kazakhstania according to one geological model of the ancient Earth.^[4]

The Hunic terranes are named after the Huns, since they are found in the areas that the Huns occupied.^[5]

See also

• Paleo-Tethys Ocean
• Rheic Ocean

References

1. Muttoni et al. 2009, Fig. 2, p. 19
2. Stampfli, von Raumer & Borel 2002, Middle Devonian Phase, p. 272
3. Stampfli, von Raumer & Borel 2002, Fig. 3, pp. 268–629
4. Fielding, Frank & Isbell 2008, pp. 11
5. Stampfli 2000, Palaeotethys, p. 3; "it contains most of the areas devastated by Attila!"

Sources

• Muttoni, G.; Gaetani, M.; Kent, D. V.; Sciunnach, D.; Angiolini, L.; Berra, F.; Garzanti, E.; Mattei, M.; Zanchi, A. (2009). "Opening of the Neo-Tethys Ocean and the Pangea B to Pangea A transformation during the Permian" (PDF). GeoArabia. 14 (4): 17–48. doi:10.2113/geoarabia140417. S2CID 53416016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
• Stampfli, G. M. (2000). "Tethyan oceans" (PDF). Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 173 (1): 1–23. Bibcode:2000GSLSP.173....1S. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.173.01.01. S2CID 219202298. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
• Stampfli, G. M.; von Raumer, J. F.; Borel, G. D. (2002). "Paleozoic evolution of pre-Variscan terranes: From Gondwana to the Variscan collision" (PDF). In Catalán, M.; Hatcher, R. D. Jr.; Arenas, R.; et al. (eds.). Variscan-Appalachian dynamics: The building of the late Paleozoic basement (PDF). Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America Special Paper 364. pp. 263–280. doi:10.1130/0-8137-2364-7.263. ISBN 9780813723648. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
• Fielding, Christopher; Frank, Tracy; Isbell, John (1 January 2008). Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space. Geological Society of America. ISBN 9780813724416. Retrieved 4 November 2019.