orogeny
English
Etymology
From French orogénie, from Ancient Greek ὄρος (óros, “mountain, high ground”) + γενεια (geneia, “creation, birth, making”). Surface etymology is oro- + -geny.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɒˈɹɒdʒɪni/, /əˈɹɒdʒɪni/
Noun
orogeny (countable and uncountable, plural orogenies)
- (geology) The process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust.
- 1993, P. A. Cawood, Acadian orogeny in west Newfoundland: Definition, character, and significance, David C. Roy, James William Skehan (editors), The Acadian Orogeny: Recent Studies in New England, Geological Society of America, page 138,
- The effects of Acadian orogeny are concentrated in central Newfoundland, decreasing in intensity to the east and west (Williams, this volume).
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 102:
- When I asked Geoff Milnes what age the rocks were before they were turned into uncompromising gneisses by the Alpine orogeny he made a rueful face.
- 2009, Robert S. Hildebrand, Did Westward Subduction Cause Cretaceous-Tertiary Orogeny in the North American Cordillera?, Geological Society of America, page 5,
- In Canada the fold-thrust belt formed during what is termed the Columbian orogeny (Monger and Price, 2002). Because the Sevier and Columbian orogenies were contemporaneous and constitute a single continuous and linear belt of rocks and structures, I use the term Cordillera orogeny to refer to the Cretaceous deformation that created the entire belt, whereas the term Laramide is used only to refer to a series of Late Cretaceous—Tertiary basement-involved uplifts, for the most part located in the Rocky Mountain foreland east of the fold-thrust belt and mainly south of the Lewis and Clark lineament (Fig. 1) in keeping with the original definition by Armstrong (1968).
- 1993, P. A. Cawood, Acadian orogeny in west Newfoundland: Definition, character, and significance, David C. Roy, James William Skehan (editors), The Acadian Orogeny: Recent Studies in New England, Geological Society of America, page 138,
Synonyms
- orogenesis
Derived terms
- orogenic
- orogenesis
- orogenous
Related terms
- orogen
Translations
the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust
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Further reading
- orogeny on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- goonery