Coordinate term: taphrogeny
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Orogeny
//ɒˈɹɒdʒɪni//
Synonyms for "orogeny" (4 found)
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9 entriesTranslations
36 translations across 26 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَكَوُّنُ الجِبَالِ noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Catalan
1 entries- orogènia noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 造山運動 /造山运动 noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Czech
1 entries- orogeneze noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Dutch
1 entries- orogenese noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Georgian
4 entries- მთათწარმოქმნა noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
- ოროგენეზი noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
- ოროგენეზისი noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
- ოროგენი noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
German
2 entries- Gebirgsbildung noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
- Orogenese noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Greek
1 entries- ορογένεση noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Hungarian
2 entries- hegyképződés noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
- hegységképződés noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Irish
1 entries- oraigineas noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Italian
1 entries- orogenia noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Japanese
1 entries- 造山運動 noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Kazakh
1 entries- орогенез noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Korean
1 entries- 조산운동 noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Latin
1 entries- orogenesis noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Macedonian
2 entries- гороо́бразба noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
- орогене́за noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Persian
1 entries- کوهزایی noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Polish
1 entries- orogeneza noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Portuguese
3 entries- orogenia noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
- orogénese noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
- orogênese noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Russian
2 entries- горообразование noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
- орогенез noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Spanish
1 entries- orogenia noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Tamil
1 entries- மலை பிறப்பு noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Thai
1 entries- การก่อเทือกเขา noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Turkish
1 entries- orojenez noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Uzbek
1 entries- orogenez noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Vietnamese
2 entries- kiến tạo núi noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
- kiến tạo sơn noun (the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust)
Sample sentences
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The effects of Acadian orogeny are concentrated in central Newfoundland, decreasing in intensity to the east and west (Williams, this volume).
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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.
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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).
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