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- noun geology The
rock deformed by anorogeny
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The process continues today, resulting in the particularly active and dramatic St. Elias "orogen" - geologists 'word for mountains that grow from collision of tectonic plates.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2008
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The process continues today, resulting in the particularly active and dramatic St. Elias "orogen" - geologists 'word for mountains that grow from collision of tectonic plates.
YubaNet.com 2008
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Geologic correlation of the Himalayan orogen and Indian craton: Part 2.
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Hildebrand et al. present a study on Wopmay orogen - a nearly two-billion-year-old belt of rocks that formed when the leading edge of the Slave continent, now located in northwestern Canada, was pulled beneath a microcontinent, which contained a volcanic regime similar to the present-day Ring of Fire.
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Geologic correlation of the Himalayan orogen and Indian craton: Part 1.
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The Calderian orogeny in Wopmay orogen (1.9 Ga), northwestern Canadian Shield
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Intraplate orogenic belts are the most obvious exception to the plate tectonic paradigm, which assumes that plate interiors are rigid and undeformable, and that orogen-scale deformation occurs exclusively at plate margins.
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They demonstrate that the orogen likely developed over a Neoproterozoic failed continental rift that was linked to the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia.
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When the boundary of a plate is a continent, the resulting deformation, or orogen can be very broad and diffuse.
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The orogen experienced crustal thickening and high-temperature decompressional melting, resulting in widespread syn - to late-orogenic granitic intrusions.
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