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- An orocline — from the Gr**** words for "mountain" and "to bend" — is a bend or curvature of an orogenic (mountain building) belt imposed after it was formed...
- within the range. The Andean orogen has a series of bends or oroclines. The Bolivian Orocline is a seaward-concave bending in the coast of South America...
- "Tuva-Mongol Orocline", is located in the eastern portion of the belt, which is in Inner Mongolia, Mongolia, and southern Russia. The Kazakhstan orocline, which...
- Bolivian Orocline to the varying ages of the subducted Nazca Plate with the older parts of the plate subducting at the centre of the orocline. As Andrés...
- the formation of the high parts of the Central Andes and the Bolivian orocline did not occur until 45 Mya. It has been suggested that the mountains were...
- the central Andean plateau (Altiplano), delineate the dramatic "Bolivian Orocline" that defines the Andean slope of southern Peru, northern Chile, and Bolivia...
- Canadian Shield: A case study for Paleoproterozoic lower crust exhumation, orocline development, and lateral extrusion". Precambrian Research. 355: 106083...
- part of the larger Inari orocline. This orocline include also the Tana and Karasjok belts. Two ideas on origin of the orocline have been proposed; that...
- Laurussia and Siberia led the formerly elongate microcontinent to bend into an orocline. During the Carboniferous, the Tarim craton lay along the northwestern...
- (link) Martínez Catalán, José R. (2012-07-01). "The Central Iberian arc, an orocline centered in the Iberian M****if and some implications for the Variscan belt"...