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<p>GeoWriter: changed start of Late Carboniferous from &quot;318&quot; to &quot;323&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>The '''Uralian orogeny''' refers to the long series of linear deformation and [[mountain building]] events that raised the [[Ural Mountains]], starting in the Late [[Carboniferous]] and [[Permian]] periods of the [[Palaeozoic]] Era, c. 323–299 and 299–251 Mya respectively, and ending with the last series of continental collisions in [[Triassic]] to early [[Jurassic]] times. In terms of [[plate tectonics]], the Uralian [[orogeny]] resulted from a southwestern movement of the [[Siberia (continent)|Siberian plate]], catching a smaller landmass, [[Kazakhstania]], between it and the nearly completely assembled supercontinent, [[Pangaea]]. The mountains of [[Eastern Europe]] on the paleocontinent [[Laurussia]], and those of Western [[Siberia]] both rose as the edge of Kazakhstania dove under the European plate. This event was the last stage in the assembly of [[Pangaea]].{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}<br /> <br /> The region affected by the orogeny, the ''Uralian orogenic belt,'' is usually thought of as the boundary between [[Europe]] and [[Asia]]. It extends from the [[Aral Sea]] to [[Novaya Zemlya]], and it includes in addition to the Ural Mountains, the [[Pay-Khoy|Pay-Khoy Ridge]] and the [[Mugodzhar Hills]] of northwest [[Kazakhstan]]. Its total length is about {{convert|3500|km|mi}}, of which the Ural Mountains are about {{convert|2500|km|mi|abbr=on}}.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.geo.arizona.edu/geo5xx/geo527/Urals/geography.html J. Zavacky, ''The Urals, a Late Paleozoic Mountain Belt'']&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> <br /> * [[Main Uralian Fault]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.scotese.com/newpage5.htm Late Permian Period map]<br /> <br /> {{Paleozoic Footer}}<br /> <br /> {{Geology of Europe}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Ural Mountains]]<br /> [[Category:Carboniferous orogenies]]<br /> [[Category:Permian orogenies]]<br /> [[Category:Geology of European Russia]]<br /> [[Category:Geology of Russia]]<br /> [[Category:Carboniferous Europe]]<br /> [[Category:Permian Europe]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{tectonics-stub}}</div>

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