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Sporogenesis
Sporogenesis Spo`ro*gen"e*sis, n. [Spore + genesis.] (Biol.) reproduction by spores.

Meaning of Orogenesis from wikipedia

- ranges. This involves a series of geological processes collectively called orogenesis. These include both structural deformation of existing continental crust...
- successions have been deformed during the Alpine orogenesis. The main tectonic phase of the Alpine orogenesis in the Dinaric Karst region took place in the...
- ranges; this involves a series of geological processes collectively called orogenesis. Orogeny typically produces orogenic belts, which are elongated regions...
- different kinds of orogenic processes occurring. During the early stages of orogenesis an "Andean type" continental magmatic arc developed due to subduction...
- The Superior Craton is a stable crustal block covering Quebec, Ontario, and southeast Manitoba in Canada, and northern Minnesota in the United States....
- 1997). "A Geologic History of the North-Central Appalachians, Part 1: Orogenesis from the Mesoproterozoic through the Taconic Orogeny". American Journal...
- The Caledonian orogeny was a mountain-building cycle recorded in the northern parts of the British Isles, the Scandinavian Caledonides, Svalbard, eastern...
- Epigersin platform region, the Alpine shrinkage region, and the Epiplatform orogenesis region. The Alpine tectonic region is the epicenter of earthquakes in...
- "scientific" images are influenced by human culture. Along with Googlegrams, the Orogenesis series was said to "call into question the boundaries of representation...
- This thermal energy drives plate tectonics and may lift mountains, via orogenesis. This slow lifting represents a kind of gravitational potential energy...