orogeny

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Repeated crustal thickening and recycling during the Andean orogeny in north Chile

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  1. noun The process of mountain formation, especially by a folding and faulting of the earth's crust.

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  • Scientist said that Halong bay has experienced at least 500 million years in various of ancient geographic condition such as orogeny, marine transgression and marine regression. —  The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public
  • Repeated crustal thickening and recycling during the Andean orogeny in north Chile —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The mapped trend of the suture resembles a previously published model of the Caledonian orogeny. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Similar evolutionary patterns in geochemistry and initial Sr and Nd isotopic characteristics of Andean (200 Ma to present) magmatic rocks suggest that the Andean orogeny in this region evolved by a combination of processes of repeated arc migration, tectonic and magmatic crustal thickening, and igneous recycling which was controlled by periodically changing plate convergence rates and obliquity and corresponding changes in the rheologic behavior of the continental crust. calc-alkaline chile fugacity geochemistry geodynamics hydrotermal isotopes northern peralkaline rhyolites structural zircon CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The assembly of the crystalline basement of the western Barents Sea is related to the Caledonian orogeny during the Silurian. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. Greek ο=ρος, mountain, + -γενεια, from -γενης, -producing.
 

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/əˈrɑdʒɛni/
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