For Suess, summing up folding and thrusting in a dozen mountain chains, orogenic events happened when the earth shrugged violently and pulled itself together.
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Orogenic
Synonyms for "orogenic" (2 found)
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12 translations across 10 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- orogènic adj (Translations)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 造山 adj (Translations)
French
1 entries- orogénique adj (Translations)
German
1 entries- gebirgsbildend adj (Translations)
Greek
1 entries- ορογενετικός adj (Translations)
Irish
1 entries- oraigineach adj (Translations)
Italian
1 entries- orogenico adj (Translations)
Polish
2 entries- górotwórczy adj (Translations)
- orogeniczny adj (Translations)
Portuguese
2 entries- orogénico adj (Translations)
- orogênico adj (Translations)
Spanish
1 entries- orogénico adj (Translations)
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