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orogen (noun): An orogen is a belt of the Earth's crust involved in the formation of mountains. Orogens are typically associated with tectonic plate movements and can result in the creation of mountain ranges.
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- The rock deformed by an orogeny
- A mountain pass.
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After the thrusting the orogen was exhumed diachronously.
Geochronologic study of rocks from southeastern wopmay orogen.
In contrast the southwestern part of the orogen is made up mostly of sedimentary rocks.
Acadian deformation and metamorphism were asymmetric across the strike of the orogen.
The temperature underneath the orogen is much higher and weakens the lithosphere.
The suture is often represented on the surface by an orogen or mountain range.
The Andean orogen has a series of bends or oroclines.
Answering these questions requires an improved knowledge of the evolution of a doubly vergent orogen.
With the gradual cooling of the Variscan orogen the ductile movements came to an end.
These fractures will play a decisive role during the further development of the orogen.
The orogen eventually ceased activity and was succeeded by the Famatinian orogeny further west.
These characteristics are thought to broadly reflect oceanward crustal growth of the orogen over time.
The resulting orogen is known as the Svecofennian orogen or Svecofennides.
Tectonic map and overall architecture of the Alpine orogen.
This resulted in the collapse of the orogen formed in Jurassic to Cretaceous.
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To the south it is bounded by the Variscan Orogen.
The Massif Central being a centerpiece of the Variscan orogen has undergone a rather complex geological evolution.
Orogen is a solo piano album by American pianist John Burke.
Its eastern margin is the Timanide orogen which stretches north to the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.
Central Plains orogen.
The Sveconorwegian orogen is commonly grouped within the Grenvillian Mesoproterozoic orogens.
The Grenville orogen.
The Sveconorwegian orogen of southern Scandinavia, setting, petrology and geochronology of polymetamorphic high-grade terranes.
The Famatinian orogen.
The Neogene the orogen exhibits post-kinematic.
The Variscan orogen.
The New Québec orogen contains two volcano-sedimentary sequences bounded by unconformities.
The Alpine orogen.
These reflections are interpreted as structural features of crustal-scale subdivisions within the Grenville Orogen.
The central and east parts of the Orogen are aligned in a north-south direction.
Measured Carboniferous granite ages are uncommon in the Appalachian Orogen of eastern Canada.
The Caledonian-Appalachian Orogen was formed by the closing of a Paleozoic Iapetus Ocean.
Foreland loading followed with the compression of the Currarong Orogen in the Early Permian.
The orogen developed on a long-lived, passive continental margin and comprises two volcanic - sedimentary sequences.
Together, the seismic profiles reveal the regional three-dimensional geometry of the orogen.
Wopmay orogen bedrock mapping and integrated studies ( year 1 of 4 ).
The area of study chosen is part of the geotectonic araçuaí-western congo orogen context.
The Trans-Hudson Orogen ( THO ) is the world 's largest Paleoproterozoic orogenic belt.
The range rose in a Precambrian event called the Aravali-Delhi orogen.
Estimates of the overall shortening across the Pyrenean orogen are mostly between 100 and 150 km.
The roots of the mountain are preserved in present-day East Africa as an orogen.
Hans Reusch compiled the existing knowledge on the orogen in 1900.
Magmatic activity of Silurian-Devonian age is widespread in the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen.
This zone indicates a shift from brittle deformation to ductile deformation towards the orogen ( Davidson, 1998 ).
Avalonia is a terrane that accreted to Laurentia-Baltica during the development of the Appalachian-Caledonide Orogen.
The range rose in a Precambrian event called the Aravalli-Delhi Orogen.
The eastern margin of the belt interacts with the north-south Eastern African orogen.
The northwestern margin of the craton is overlaid by the fold-and-thrust Early Paleozoic Caledonian orogen.
The Appalachian Mountains contain small, isolated exposures of the Grenville orogen.
