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- noun Plural form of
orogeny .
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Examples
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Rocks vary in age from Precambrian to Devonian and have been subjected to two major structural events, the Frenchman and Tabberaberan orogenies.
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I don't deny that ocean basins open and close, but I think that it is too neat, too pat, and inadequately describes most real orogenies.
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