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orogeny::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | geologic process, geological process |
Examples of orogeny
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Subduction dynamics and the origin of Andean orogeny and the Bolivian orocline.
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The Caledonian orogeny has been named for Caledonia, the Latin name for Scotland.
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I rewrote Caledonian orogeny and Iapetus Ocean and I started Rhenohercynian basin.
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Evidence for Variscan orogeny is seen in the sheared rock and cleaved shales.
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This orogeny, which is continuing today, is related to closure of the Tethys Ocean.
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Central Minnesota contains an ancient fault system from the Penokean orogeny.
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Carpathian orogeny forms Carpathian Mountains in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Additional waves of metamorphism continued up until the Alleghanian orogeny.
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The Caledonian orogeny began forming a mountain chain from Norway to the Appalachians.
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- The process of mountain formation (especially by the upward displacement of the earth's crust)
- Orogeny refers to forces and events leading to a severe structural deformation of the earth's crust due to the engagement of tectonic plates. Response to such engagement results in the formation of long tracts of highly deformed rock called orogens or orogenic belts. ...
- (Orogen) A linear or arcuate region that has been subjected to folding and other deformation during an orogenic cycle. Orogenic belts are mobile belts during their formative stages, and most of them later became mountain belts by postorogenic processes. Syn: fold belt; orogenic; belt orogene.
- (Orogen) Belt of deformed rocks usually accompanied by intrusive rocks.
- A period of major mountain building. Modern examples include the Himalayan orogeny (formed by continent-continent collision between India and the rest of Asia). Orogen is the geological manifestation of a mountain belt, orogenic is its adjective.
- The process of formation of mountains, the means by which structures within fold-belt mountainous areas were formed, including thrusting, folding, and faulting in the outer and higher layers, and plastic folding, metamorphism, and plutonism in the inner and deeper layers.
- Orogeny is the process of formation of mountains. Source: Bates and Jackson (1984)
- The tectonic process in which large areas are folded, thrust-faulted, metamorphosed, and subjected to plutonism. The cycle ends with uplift and the formation of mountains.
- A compressive tectonic process that results in intense folding, reverse faulting, crustal thickening, uplift and deep plutonic activity. A mountain-building episode.
