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Orogeny (/ɒˈrɒdʒəni/) is a mountain-building
process that
takes place at a
convergent plate margin when
plate motion compresses the margin. An orogenic...
- The
Alpine orogeny or
Alpide orogeny[dubious – discuss] is an
orogenic phase in the Late
Mesozoic (Eoalpine) and the
current Cenozoic that has formed...
- The
Laramide orogeny was a time
period of
mountain building in
western North America,
which started in the Late Cretaceous, 80 to 70
million years ago...
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orogenies. Some
orogenies encomp**** more than one
continent and may have
different names in each, and some very
large orogenies include sub-
orogenies...
- The
Caledonian orogeny was a mountain-building
cycle recorded in the
northern parts of the
British Isles, the
Scandinavian Caledonides, Svalbard, eastern...
- The
Acadian orogeny is a long-lasting
mountain building event which began in the
Middle Devonian,
reaching a
climax in the Late Devonian. It was active...
- of the Earth's crust),
beginning c. 800 to 650 Ma with the East
African Orogeny, the
collision of
India and
Madagascar with East Africa, and culminating...
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smaller ocean basins. The
Carpathian mountains were
formed during the
Alpine orogeny in the
Mesozoic and
Cenozoic by
moving the
ALCAPA (Alpine-Carpathian-Pannonian)...
- The
Antler orogeny was a
tectonic event that
began in the
early Late
Devonian with
widespread effects continuing into the
Mississippian and
early Pennsylvanian...
- The
Variscan orogeny, or
Hercynian orogeny, was a
geologic mountain-building
event caused by Late
Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia)...
