Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The process of mountain formation, especially by a folding and faulting of the earth's crust.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as orogenesis.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. the process of mountain formation (especially by the upward displacement of the earth's crust)
Etymologies
- From oro- + -geny. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“An extra 10 points to Damian in that piece for using the word "orogeny", which I'm embarrassed to say”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“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
“These mountains are part of the western Iberian old Hercynian system, which constitutes medium elevations with a smooth relief, scarcely influenced by the Alpine orogeny.”
“In this orogeny, compressional forces squished sedimentary deposits that existed between the converging continental plates and rocks at the margin of the Eurasian and Indian plates upward in elevation.”
“Many ridges are formed on well-cemented, relatively resistant material such as sandstone or conglomerate; they are often rather parallel and alternate with valleys but, in central Pennsylvania, they zigzag because resistant strata were compressed into plunging folds during orogeny and later eroded.”
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
“This is the northernmost and wettest of the central Asian depressions, remnants of a Tertiary era inland sea, with relict glaciers, glacier lakes and a wide variety of rock types, the result of a long series of successive eras of deposition and orogeny.”
Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
“The Alpine orogeny has shaped the complex Pyrenean landform.”
“This range was shaped by an intense Alpine orogeny into a complex landscape characterized by steep rocky slopes, amazing canyons, karstic high plains, and high summits.”
“Alternately, the Galician-Portuguese Western extreme of the ecoregion is characterized by lower smooth elevations, which correspond to very old massifs shaped by the late Paleozoic Hercynian orogeny.”
“Neotropical floristic diversity: Phytogeographical connections between Central and South America, Pleistocene climatic fluctuations, or an accident of the Andean orogeny.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘orogeny’.
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“that which produces,â€
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Gk. genés 'born, produced';
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ikahime's Words
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-geny
denoting a mode of production
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State Spelling Bee 2011
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miss_red's list
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Useful Words
I can use these.
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oro-
of or relating to mountains
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Words to Use
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tmesis's Words
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Geology
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for orogeny.

yarb
(some html is allowed) Jun 10, 2011sionnach Is yarb using some special kind of "whisper font"?
*Is jealous, because I have no idea how to do that* Jun 10, 2011
yarb Definitely belongs on a "sounds filthy" list. Jun 10, 2011
yarb
- Ian Vince, Britain's Historic Past, in guardian.co.uk, 26-5-11. Jun 10, 2011hernesheir Then comes the folding and the faulting, and making mountains out of molehills. May 11, 2010
ruzuzu You know, of course, that subduction leads to orogeny. May 11, 2010