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Caledonian Orogeny
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The Caledonian Orogeny (sometimes referred to as the Scandian Orogeny in Scandinavian contexts) describes a major mountain-building event that affected large parts of Northern Europe and Eastern Greenland, spanning approximately the Late Ordovician through the Early Devonian periods ($\sim 490$ to $390$ million years ago). This collisional event is responsible for the consolidation of the [Laurentia…