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Geology and Soils
The oldest parent rock of our soils was moulded during the
Variscan orogeny, as the seabed of the Rheic Ocean rose upward
to become a mountain range, transformed during a period of
geologic upheaval some 300–370 million years ago. Weathering
and erosion have worn down the roots of these mountains into the
undulating hills of the Bohemian Massif, and just a few million years