orogenous zone

English

Etymology

By analogy to erogenous zone.

Noun

orogenous zone (plural orogenous zones)

(geology, often humorous, by analogy to erogenous zone) A region characterized by mountain-building.
Orogenous zones are usually found along plate boundaries.
The villagers were astonished to learn that they were living in an orogenous zone.
- 1960 World Petroleum, vol. 31, M. Palmer, ed., page 65:
  ...an orogenous zone separates a deep subsiding western zone, over 3,000 meters deep, from a more stable eastern zone rising gently to the east.
- 1968 Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, vols. 11-14, page vi:
  The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending orogenous zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an alluvial valley on the west.
- 1976 "Geomorphology and Paleogeography", in Proceedings of the International Geographical Union, page 78:
  Structures due to strata compaction have been identified in the orogenous zone of North-Dobrogea (Independenta), in the Moesic Platform and in the Pannonian Depression (Teremia).
- 2001 Jeff Rovin, Fatalis: a Novel (Macmillan), page 28:
  Grand knew the mountains well, he respected their moods, and above all he enjoyed the challenge of what Tumamait — when he still had a sense of humor — once referred to as "one of the earth's most seductive and temperamental orogenous zones."
- 2008 Gregory S. Babonis et al., Using Multi-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar to Develop Regional-Scale Groundwater Maps (University of Michigan), page 9:
  The NHLR lies within the Northern Highlands region—a relict orogenous zone that has been glacially eroded to form a highland plateau region spanning from Michigan to Minnesota.

Related terms

orogeny

单词	orogenous zone
释义	orogenous zone English Etymology By analogy to erogenous zone. Noun orogenous zone (plural orogenous zones) (geology, often humorous, by analogy to erogenous zone) A region characterized by mountain-building. Orogenous zones are usually found along plate boundaries. The villagers were astonished to learn that they were living in an orogenous zone. 1960 World Petroleum, vol. 31, M. Palmer, ed., page 65: ...an orogenous zone separates a deep subsiding western zone, over 3,000 meters deep, from a more stable eastern zone rising gently to the east. 1968 Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, vols. 11-14, page vi: The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending orogenous zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an alluvial valley on the west. 1976 "Geomorphology and Paleogeography", in Proceedings of the International Geographical Union, page 78: Structures due to strata compaction have been identified in the orogenous zone of North-Dobrogea (Independenta), in the Moesic Platform and in the Pannonian Depression (Teremia). 2001 Jeff Rovin, Fatalis: a Novel (Macmillan), page 28: Grand knew the mountains well, he respected their moods, and above all he enjoyed the challenge of what Tumamait — when he still had a sense of humor — once referred to as "one of the earth's most seductive and temperamental orogenous zones." 2008 Gregory S. Babonis et al., Using Multi-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar to Develop Regional-Scale Groundwater Maps (University of Michigan), page 9: The NHLR lies within the Northern Highlands region—a relict orogenous zone that has been glacially eroded to form a highland plateau region spanning from Michigan to Minnesota. Related terms orogeny
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