Location of the Hercynian/Variscan/Alleghanian mountain chains in the middle of the Carboniferous period. Present day coastlines are shown for reference. Red lines are sutures, capitalized names are the different continents that joined during these orogenies.
Literature used to make this map:

.mw-parser-output .smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}Matte, P.; 2001: The Variscan collage and orogeny (480±290 Ma) and the tectonic definition of the Armorica microplate: a review, Terra Nova 13, 122-128.
Ziegler, P.A.; 1990: Geological Atlas of Western and Central Europe, Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij BV (2nd ed.), ISBN 90-6644-125-9.
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