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2. Orogenic belt - Wikipedia

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   An orogenic belt, orogen, or mobile belt, [a] is a zone of Earth's crust affected by orogeny. [2] An orogenic belt develops when a continental plate crumples and is uplifted to form one or more mountain ranges ; this involves a series of geological processes collectively called orogenesis .

3. Orogeny - Wikipedia

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   Orogeny (/ ɒ ˈ r ɒ dʒ ə n i /) is a mountain-building process that takes place at a convergent plate margin when plate motion compresses the margin. An orogenic belt or orogen develops as the compressed plate crumples and is uplifted to form one or more mountain ranges.

4. Orogenic collapse - Wikipedia

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   In geology, orogenic collapse is the thinning and lateral spread of thickened crust. It is a broad term referring to processes which distribute material from regions of high gravitational potential energy to regions of low gravitational potential energy. [1] [2] Orogenic collapse can begin at any point during an orogeny due to overthickening of ...

5. List of orogenies - Wikipedia

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   Appalachian Mountains are a well-studied orogenic belt resulting from a late Paleozoic collision between North America and Africa. Taconic orogeny – Mountain-building period that affected most of New England; Acadian orogeny – North American orogeny; Alleghanian orogeny – Mountain-forming event that formed the Appalachian and Allegheny ...

6. List of tectonic plate interactions - Wikipedia

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   The most dramatic orogenic belt on the planet is the one between the African plate and the Indo-Australian plate on one side (to the south) and the Eurasian plate on the other side (to the north). This belt runs from New Zealand in the east-south-east, through Indonesia , along the Himalayas , through the Middle East up to the Mediterranean in ...

7. Alpine orogeny - Wikipedia

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   Tectonic map of southern Europe and the Middle East, showing tectonic structures of the western Alpide mountain belt. The Alpine orogeny or Alpide orogeny [dubious – discuss] is an orogenic phase in the Late Mesozoic [1] (Eoalpine) and the current Cenozoic that has formed the mountain ranges of the Alpide belt.

8. Hellenic orogeny - Wikipedia

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   The Hellenic orogen is made up of three orogenic belts. The Cimmerian orogenic belt in Greece comprises the Serbomacedonian, Circum Rhodope, Axios, Pelagonian and Rhodope zones, while the Bayburt, Sinop, Kirklareli and Sakarya zones are situated in Turkey. The Alpine orogenic belt includes Neo-Tethys oceanic sedimentary rocks, the Pindos ...

9. Trans-Hudson orogeny - Wikipedia

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   The Trans-Hudson orogen sutured together the Hearne-Rae, Superior, and Wyoming cratons to form the cratonic core of North America in a network of Paleoproterozoic orogenic belts. These orogenic belts include the margins of at least nine independent microcontinents that were themselves sections of at least three former major supercontinents ...