Definitions
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- noun geology A
mountain belt whose process ofdeformation isvisible . - noun geology Any mountain belt with significant
curvature .
Etymologies
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Coined by Carey in 1955. ("The orocline concept in geotectonics", Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 89: 255-288)
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(12-14°S): Implications for mass balance and rotations in the "Bolivian orocline"
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