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Definitions
the process of mountain formation (especially by the upward displacement of the earth's crust)
Word origin
From French orogénie, from Ancient Greek ὄρος (óros, “mountain, high ground”) + γενεια (geneia, “creation, birth, making”). By surface analysis, oro- + -geny.
Used in a sentence
“Coordinate term: taphrogeny”
“The effects of Acadian orogeny are concentrated in central Newfoundland, decreasing in intensity to the east and west (Williams, this volume).”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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