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A geological term referring to the process of mountain formation in the Alps

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alpine orogeny
It results from the early movements of the alpine orogeny.
Alpine orogeny affected the area in several stages from Jurassic to Neogene.
This deformation occurred during the Alpine orogeny.
It formed during the Alpine orogeny of the Cenozoic Era.
The Alpide belt is being created by ongoing plate tectonics such as the Alpine orogeny.
The rock structure was created during the Alpine orogeny and exposed by subsequent erosion.
Further Variscan developments to the southeast are partly hidden and overprinted by the Alpine orogeny.
The mountains were created during the Alpine Orogeny in the Cenozoic.
The Alpine orogeny has also left its imprints, probably causing the important Cenozoic volcanism.
The mountains were mainly formed in the Miocene during the Alpine orogeny.
On the north the Alpine Orogeny had already created the Alps.
Existing research has clearly demonstrated traces of the Hercynian and Alpine orogeny.
The mobilist theory of Émile Argand for the Alpine orogeny was criticized by Kurt Leuchs.
The Triassic materials are former ocean floors raised following the Alpine orogeny.
Main articles, Alpine orogeny and Geology of the Alps.

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The mountains were formed in the Miocene and the Pliocene during the Alpine orogeny.
The Wealden anticline formed later, during the Alpine Orogeny in the Tertiary.
The Cretaceous Mauléon hyperextended rift basin was inverted during the Alpine orogeny.
It is the northernmost ' ripple ' of the Alpine Orogeny.
The Eo-Alpine phase is sometimes seen as the earliest phase of the Alpine orogeny.
It was formed from the late Oligocene to middle Miocene, during the Alpine orogeny.

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