Definition of Armorican in English:

1Relating to Armorica.

1. 1.1Geology
   another term for Hercynian

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Off the Armorican margin, the S reflector has no direct seismic relationship with the location of crustal thinning.
   • Unit 3B, observed in the western Armorican transitional zone, is a seismic unit with low reflectivity.
   • It was, probably, a continent-continent collision to the south of Wales and the Brabant Massif, perhaps a westward continuation of the Armorican and Bohemian Massifs, like that of the Northern Appalachians.
   • Heavy-mineral analysis of the sands clearly indicates a possible Armorican contribution at this time but according to Daley they are unlikely to be of fluvial origin because ‘the latter was periodically separated from Britain’.
   • In Cambrian rocks archaeocyathans are found in an equatorial and subequatorial belt which included Laurentia, and the North African, Iberian and Armorican parts of Gondwana, but not the Avalonian part.
   • The Armorica plate, as it is usually conceived, was composed of the Iberian, Armorican and Bohemian Massifs.
   • This zone is typified by Cambro Ordovician rift-related volcanism and Ordovician to Devonian subduction attributed to a southern proto-Tethys ocean separating the Armorican - Barrandian microcontinents to the north from Gondwana.