Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of mountain formation, especially by a folding and faulting of the earth's crust.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
orogenesis .
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- noun geology the
process ofmountain building by theupward folding of theEarth 'scrust .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of mountain formation (especially by the upward displacement of the earth's crust)
Etymologies
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Examples
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An extra 10 points to Damian in that piece for using the word "orogeny", which I'm embarrassed to say
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Scientist said that Halong bay has experienced at least 500 million years in various of ancient geographic condition such as orogeny, marine transgression and marine regression.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2009
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Alternately, the Galician-Portuguese Western extreme of the ecoregion is characterized by lower smooth elevations, which correspond to very old massifs shaped by the late Paleozoic Hercynian orogeny.
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Many ridges are formed on well-cemented, relatively resistant material such as sandstone or conglomerate; they are often rather parallel and alternate with valleys but, in central Pennsylvania, they zigzag because resistant strata were compressed into plunging folds during orogeny and later eroded.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Neotropical floristic diversity: Phytogeographical connections between Central and South America, Pleistocene climatic fluctuations, or an accident of the Andean orogeny.
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This range was shaped by an intense Alpine orogeny into a complex landscape characterized by steep rocky slopes, amazing canyons, karstic high plains, and high summits.
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In this orogeny, compressional forces squished sedimentary deposits that existed between the converging continental plates and rocks at the margin of the Eurasian and Indian plates upward in elevation.
Mountain 2008
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This is the northernmost and wettest of the central Asian depressions, remnants of a Tertiary era inland sea, with relict glaciers, glacier lakes and a wide variety of rock types, the result of a long series of successive eras of deposition and orogeny.
Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia 2008
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These mountains are part of the western Iberian old Hercynian system, which constitutes medium elevations with a smooth relief, scarcely influenced by the Alpine orogeny.
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The Alpine orogeny has shaped the complex Pyrenean landform.
ruzuzu commented on the word orogeny
You know, of course, that subduction leads to orogeny.
May 11, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word orogeny
Then comes the folding and the faulting, and making mountains out of molehills.
May 11, 2010
yarb commented on the word orogeny
- Ian Vince, Britain's Historic Past, in guardian.co.uk, 26-5-11.June 10, 2011
yarb commented on the word orogeny
Definitely belongs on a "sounds filthy" list.
June 10, 2011
sionnach commented on the word orogeny
Is yarb using some special kind of "whisper font"?
*Is jealous, because I have no idea how to do that*
June 10, 2011
yarb commented on the word orogeny
(some html is allowed)June 11, 2011
qms commented on the word orogeny
Monadnocks are rather a prodigy -
Both orphaned and sterile of progeny.
Peaks crowded in ranges
Will undergo changes,
But these are aloof from orogeny.
April 16, 2019