Svecofennian orogeny
Svecofennian orogeny An early to middle Proterozoic mountain-building episode that affected the Baltic Shield, in what are now Sweden and southern Finland, and that occurred approximately 1700 Ma ago, at approximately the same time as the Hudsonian and Laxfordian orogenies.
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