orogeny en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ɒˈɹɒdʒɪni/ (UK)
- /əˈɹɒdʒɪni/ (UK)
Etymology
From French orogénie, from Ancient Greek ὄρος (óros, “mountain, high ground”) + γενεια (geneia, “creation, birth, making”). By surface analysis, oro- + -geny.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust.
The effects of Acadian orogeny are concentrated in central Newfoundland, decreasing in intensity to the east and west (Williams, this volume).
1993, P. A. Cawood, “Acadian orogeny in west Newfoundland: Definition, character, and significance”, in David C. Roy, James William Skehan, editors, The Acadian Orogeny: Recent Studies in New England, Geological Society of America, page 138:Coordinate term: taphrogeny
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.
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 102: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).
2009, Robert S. Hildebrand, Did Westward Subduction Cause Cretaceous-Tertiary Orogeny in the North American Cordillera?, Geological Society of America, page 5:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| orogenies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (39)
pl orogeneza (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · ka ოროგენი (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · hu hegységképződés (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · ru орогенез (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · az orogenez (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · nl orogenese (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · ar تَكَوُّنُ الجِبَالِ (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · it orogenia (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · ca orogènia (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · az dağəmələgəlmə (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · kk орогенез (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · mk орогене́за (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · es orogenia (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · ko 조산운동 (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · ka ოროგენეზი (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · el ορογένεση (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · ka ოროგენეზისი (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · pt orogénese (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · uz orogenez (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · mk гороо́бразба (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · fa کوهزایی (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · de Orogenese (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · cs orogeneze (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · ta மலை பிறப்பு (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · pt orogênese (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · th การก่อเทือกเขา (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · tr orojenez (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · vi kiến tạo núi (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · fi orogenia (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · ka მთათწარმოქმნა (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · vi kiến tạo sơn (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · de Gebirgsbildung (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · ru горообразование (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · la orogenesis (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · ja 造山運動 (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · pt orogenia (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · cmn 造山運動 /造山运动 (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · ga oraigineas (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust) · hu hegyképződés (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)