Editing Alpine orogeny (section)

==Cause==
The Alpine orogeny was caused by the [[African continent]], the [[Arabian Peninsula]], the [[Indian subcontinent]], and the [[Cimmeria (continent)|Cimmerian plate]] colliding with [[Eurasia]] in the north. [[Convergent boundary|Convergent movements]] between the [[African plate|African]], [[Arabian plate|Arabian]] and [[Indian plate]]s from the south, and the [[Eurasian plate]] and the [[Anatolian sub-plate]] from the north – as well as many smaller (micro)plates – had already begun during the early [[Cretaceous]], but the major phases of mountain building began during the [[Paleocene]] to the [[Eocene]]. The process continues currently in some of the Alpide mountain ranges.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}

The Alpine orogeny is considered one of the three major phases of orogeny in Europe that define the geology of that continent, along with the [[Caledonian orogeny]] that formed the [[Laurasia#Laurussia|Old Red Sandstone Continent]] when the continents [[Baltica]] and [[Laurentia]] [[continental collision|collided]] in the early [[Paleozoic]], and the [[Variscan orogeny|Hercynian or Variscan orogeny]] that formed [[Pangaea]] when [[Gondwana]] and the Old Red Sandstone Continent collided in the middle to late Paleozoic.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}