orogeny in English

noun
1
a process in which a section of the earth's crust is folded and deformed by lateral compression to form a mountain range.
The Dalradian rocks in Arran were initially folded during the Caledonian orogeny into a recumbent structure known as the Aberfoyle synform.

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2. Orogeny by Anachronism, released 06 July 2018 1

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4. The Paleo-Tethys had closed from west to east, creating the Cimmerian Orogeny.

5. The Alpine orogeny caused extensive folding and faulting of Mesozoic and early Tertiary sediments from the Tethys geosyncline.

6. The sediments accumulated in the foreland basin formed during the early stage of the Taconic orogeny.

7. The corresponding unconformity, which exists only in the western Pyrenees, belongs to an early deformation phase of the Variscan orogeny (Breton Phase).

8. Thrusting and overthrusting of frozen gravel blocks mimiks much slower processes on a bigger scale in mountain orogeny.

9. The Altaid orogeny was locally and intermittently arrested by massive keirogenic movements and local taphrogeny associated with it

10. It is proposed that alkali loss, probably during the subsequent Grenvillian orogeny, imposed a peraluminous composition on originally peralkaline rocks.

11. Unlike most ancient mountains on the mainland, many important islands in Korea were formed by volcanic activity in the Cenozoic orogeny.

12. The basement is traversed by major east–west-striking, late Variscan fracture zones that were reactivated during the alpine orogeny cycle.

13. The first period of tectonic activity was the accretion of an island arc at some point during the Elzevirian Orogeny.

14. Other articles where Caledonian orogeny is discussed: Devonian Period: Significant geologic events: …by a mountain-building event, the Caledonian orogeny, that established a mountain chain stretching from present-day eastern North America through Greenland, western Scandinavia, Scotland, Ireland, and northern England and south to the fringes of western North Africa.

15. This debris flow material was tectonically deformed prior to the Medial Devonian 'Acadian' orogeny, probably as a result of earlier 'Taconic' thrusting.

16. 25 The continental crust was formed through the continental nucleus, platform, Pangea, continental splitting, continental accretion, intercontinental collision and orogeny in its progress.

17. 14 The continental crust was formed through the continental nucleus, platform, Pangea, continental splitting, continental accretion, intercontinental collision and orogeny in its progress.

18. These fault-bounded Basins formed between basement-cored mountain ranges during the Late Cretaceous to Early Eocene Laramide orogeny (~80–55 Ma), and are found from northern Mexico …

19. The Western Ligurian Flysch Units represent an Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene accretionary prism overthrust onto the paleo-European continental margin during the collisional stages of the Alpine orogeny (Eocene).

20. The final accretionary event involved addition of the Minnesota River Valley terrane (MRVT) from the south, and deposition and metamorphism of synorogenic turbidites of the Pontiac terrane during the ~2.68 Ga Minnesotan orogeny.

21. Altaid(e)s, Altaid orogeny Altaiden f, Altaidisches Orogen n [Das Gebirgssystem, das durch die variscische oder herzynitische Faltung in jungpaläozoischer Zeit, hauptsächlich im Oberkarbon, in mehreren Faltungsphasen aufgebaut wurde]

22. It has been interpreted as an accretionary complex, a foreland, or a fore-arc basin that developed and was subsequently deformed between the metavolcanic-rich Uchi subprovince and the orthogneiss- and metaplutonic-dominated Winnipeg River subprovince during a prolonged transpressive orogeny.

23. Other articles where Coast Range Batholith is discussed: Alaskan mountains: Physiography of the southern ranges: …massive granitic rocks of the Coast Range Batholith, successively intruded in various stages during the orogeny of the late Mesozoic to early Cenozoic (about 100 to 50 million years ago)