The Hunic superterrane is a
terrane that is now attached to Europe and Asia. At the end of the
Ordovician or beginning of the
Silurian it separated from
Gondwana and joined
Laurasia at the beginning of the
Carboniferous, at the time of the
Variscan orogeny. Rather than being a single block, there were apparently two groups of blocks, the European Hunic terranes and the Asian Hunic terranes.[1][2][3]
The collision with Laurasia (specifically, with the
Kipchak Arc) formed what is now known as
Kazakhstania according to one geological model of the ancient Earth.[4]
The Hunic terranes are named after the
Huns, since they are found in the areas that the Huns occupied.[5]