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	Orogeny
		Orogeny is the variety of processes that occur during mountain-building, including:
		Shallow-water sedimentary rocks on the inner side of the mountain belt, thick deep-water sedimentary rocks in the heart of the mountain belt.
		Mountains are high because orogeny shortens and thickens the crust, and isostasy causes the thicker crust to rise.
	www.uwgb.edu /dutchs/platetec/orogeny.htm (1334 words)

	Earth Science: Plate Tectonics Present to Cambrian
		Orogeny continues in the Mediterranean region and India nears its junction with southern Asia.
		The Atlantic lengthens and widens, the Sevier orogeny continues, and the Caribbean arc is formed.
		The western fringe of Pangaea was adjacent to a long subduction zone that formed the eastern margin of the Pacific "ring of fire".
	geowords.com /lostlinks/j01/1.htm (710 words)

	Orogeny Summary
		Orogeny and orogenesis are derived from the Greek words oros, meaning mountain, and geneia, meaning born.
		Orogeny (Greek for "mountain generating") is the process of mountain building, and may be studied as a tectonic structural event, as a geographical event and a chronological event, in that orogenic events cause distinctive structural phenomena and related tectonic activity, affect certain regions of rocks and crust and happen within a time frame.
		In terms of recognising orogeny as an event, Leopold von Buch (1855) recognised that orogenies could be placed in time by bracketing between the youngest deformed rock and the oldest undeformed rock, a principle which is still in use today, though commonly investigated by geochronology using radiometric dating.
	www.bookrags.com /Orogeny (1998 words)

	Racklan Orogeny
		This paper supports the Racklan orogeny being correlated with the Forward orogeny (Cook, D.G. and MacLean, 1995) in the Coppermine Homocline region and with the Fifteenmile orogeny
		Racklan orogeny was suggested (Cook, D.G. and MacLean, 1995) with the limitation that the age
		orogeny, however, he saw parts of large-scale features that he thought could be related to the
	www.sfu.ca /~mbrideau/Racklan.htm (1593 words)

	Laramide orogeny
		Clastic wedges that were derived from Laramide uplifts in the Cordilleran Geosyncline were shed eastward into parts of Wyoming and Utah.
		The Laramide orogeny originally was believed to mark the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary.
		It is now considered to have been a polyphase orogeny consisting of many disparate pulses of deformation that varied in intensity and age from place to place in western North America.
	tlacaelel.igeofcu.unam.mx /~GeoD/colision/figs/orogeny/laramide.html (137 words)

	Definition of orogeny - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		Learn more about "orogeny" and related topics at Britannica.com
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		See a map of "orogeny" in the Visual Thesaurus
	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=orogeny (38 words)

	Alleghenian Orogeny (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The progress of these collisions is traced using modified Paleomap project drawings of the earth at 400, 380 and 360 million years ago.
		In the Narragansett Bay area, folded rocks formed a large depression (or basin) during the Alleghenian Orogeny.
		The Appalachian and Caledonian mountains (Greenland and Northern Europe) are identified, as they underwent orogenies during the collisions that formed Pangaea.
	www.jamestown-ri.info /alleghenian.htm (781 words)

	Orogeny - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Orogeny, period of mountain-building usually extending over tens of millions of years.
		Orogenies have been a major feature of several periods in...
		More than half the world’s land mass during the Silurian was represented by the Gondwanan crustal plate which migrated across the south pole at this...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Orogeny.html (120 words)

	Orogeny: World of Earth Science
		Orogeny can also have a time connotation when used in naming periods of intense tectonic activity and mountain building, whilst orogenesis is only used to describe the process.
		For example, "Grenvillian Orogeny" is used to refer to the period of orogenesis in many parts of the world approximately one billion years ago, synchronous with the collision between Laurentia and Baltica in the Grenville Province of North America.
		Orogeny or orogenesis most commonly involves the collision between two continental lithospheric plates or the collision between a continental plate and an island arc.
	science.enotes.com /earth-science/orogeny (611 words)

	Geol Evol Virginia-Cross Section H
		implistically, the Taconic orogeny occurs when a terrane or series of terranes (volcanic arcs and microcontinents) collide with eastern North America along an east dipping subduction zone: Stage G to this stage.
		The end of orogenies in general, and the Taconic in particular are easily recognized in the rock record.
		The end of the Taconic orogeny is marked by the Clinch/Tuscsarora formation (and its equivalents like the Massanutten sandstone), an extremely pure quartz sandstone that blankets the entire Appalachian region from New York to Tennessee.
	csmres.jmu.edu /geollab/vageol/vahist/H-MidO.html (2256 words)

	Cenozoic History of Arizona
		Continued construction of the Mogollon Highlands in the southwestern half of the state resulted in the development of northeastern lowlands that were an heterogeneous assemblage of local uplifts and sedimentary basins.
		Extension during the Mid-Tertiary orogeny was accompanied by the formation of metamorphic core complexes.
		As the orogeny continued, the Mogollon Highlands were extended and structurally lowered and the Colorado Plateau began to gain elevation.
	web1.shastacollege.edu /geoscience/histories/Az/Cenozoic/cz_histAz.html (1416 words)

	Geol Evol Virginia-Cross Section K
		The orogeny occurred when northwest Africa, a part of the supercontinent Gondwana collided with the eastern seaboard of North America closing the Proto-Atlantic (and Rheic) oceans.
		The collision resulted in several associated orogenies; the Mauritanide (the complementary orogeny on Africa opposite the Alleghanian), the Ouachita (South America striking the Gulf Coast region), and the Hercynian (Gondwana colliding with southern Europe).
		The Alleghanian orogeny assembles all the scattered continents of the late Precambrian supercontinent back into another supercontinent, Pangaea, closing the Protoatlantic/Rheic oceans shut, which encloses Virginia in the middle again, and completes the cycle.
	csmres.jmu.edu /geollab/vageol/vahist/K-LatPal.html (4245 words)

	Alpine orogeny Information
		The Alpine orogeny (sometimes also called Alpide orogeny) is an orogenic phase in the Tertiary that formed the mountain ranges of the Alpide belt.
		The Alpine orogeny occurred when the continents Africa and India and the small Cimmerian plate collided (from the south) with Eurasia in the north.
		The Alpine orogeny is considered one of the three major phases of orogeny in Europe that define the geology of that continent.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Alpine_orogeny (251 words)

	Mountain Building/Orogeny
		Orogenies are some of the most dramatic results of plate motion, forcing continental crust upwards as a result of continental collision or volcanism.
		Orogeny is responsible for some of Earth's most dramatic landscapes, and these visualizations seek to explain the processes that created the world's great mountains.
		Animations show the motion of the two continents, the growth of the Himalayas, earthquakes resulting from their collision, and the incredible rate of erosion of the newly formed mountains.
	serc.carleton.edu /NAGTWorkshops/visualization/collections/orogeny.html (509 words)

	NYC Regional Geology
		The Acadian Orogeny is the name of a long-lasting mountain building disturbance that most greatly affected the the Northern Appalachian region (New England northeastward into the Gaspé region of Canada).
		The "climax" of this orogeny is dated as early in the Late Devonian, but deformation, plutonism, and metamorphism related to this orogeny continued well into the Mississippian Period.
		During the coarse of the orogeny, older rocks were deformed and metamorphosed, and new faults formed and older faults were reactivated.
	3dparks.wr.usgs.gov /nyc/valleyandridge/valleyandridge.htm (2289 words)

	Sevier Thrust System - Utah Geological Survey
		The Sevier orogeny is often confused with the Laramide orogeny, even by geologists, because they overlap in time and location.
		The Laramide orogeny developed in the Late Cretaceous and continued into the Oligocene epoch, mostly synchronous with late stages of the Sevier orogeny.
		The two orogenies were produced by the same crustal shortening event, collision of the Farallon and North American plates, but they are distinguished by style of deformation.
	geology.utah.gov /utahgeo/geo/thrustfault5.htm (275 words)

	Student Resource Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Silurian-Devonian orogeny that occurred along the northwestern margin of Baltica resulting from the collision of Baltica with Laurentia.
		Pennsylvanian to Permian orogeny in the Hercynian mobile belt of southern Europe and the Appalachian mobile belt from New York to Alabama.
		An orogeny that deformed the Ouachita mobile belt during the Pennsylvanian Period.
	www.brookscole.com /cgi-brookscole/course_products_bc.pl?fid=M35&product_isbn_issn=0534375502&chapter_number=21&resource_id=10 (755 words)

	Taconic Orogeny
		Pillow basalts at Stark's Knob, just north of Saratoga, famous for both geologic and historic reasons (this hill figured prominently in the Battle of Saratoga during the Revolutionary War.) Many pillow basalts form in deep waters where sea-floor spreading occurs.
		The story of these pillow basalts may not be so simple: some have made the interpretation of a shallow water pillow basalt formed during the time of the Ordovician Taconic Orogeny which was then thrust into this position from the east.
		This thrusting is a result of the Taconic Orogeny during the Ordovician period.
	www.priweb.org /ed/earthtrips/cent_NY/taconic.html (417 words)

	The Acadian Orogeny
		Continued convergence in the southern Iapetus Sea initiated the Caledonian orogeny, the precursor to the Acadian orogeny.
		The Caledonian orogeny was caused by the collision between Baltica and Greenland, which was attached to Canada at the time.
		The Acadian orogeny and the Caledonian orogeny mark the assemblage of the super-continent Laurussia.
	bartik.brynmawr.edu /students/mlindhol/overview.html (322 words)

	IngentaConnect The Acadian Orogeny in the Northern Appalachians
		IngentaConnect The Acadian Orogeny in the Northern Appalachians
		The Acadian orogeny, involving deposition of clastic wedges, deformation, metamorphism, magmatism, and exhumation, is limited in time to the Devonian, and in space to the northern mainland Appalachians.
		In this context, we propose that the Acadian orogeny developed on an Andean-type margin, and attribute it to flattening of the subduction zone as a consequence of collision of an oceanic plateau surrounding a plume.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/bell/igr/2005/00000047/00000007/art00001 (297 words)

	The Orogeny Zones and Virginia Geology
		The layer concluding the Taconic orogeny is known today (depending upon your location) as the Tuscarora, Clinch, or Massanutten sandstone.
		Finally, thick wedges of sediments erode from the mountain, with a final layer of relatively-pure sandstone at the end after everything else has washed away and the mountain is becoming a flatland.
		This doubled the thickness of the sediment layers and shrank the width of Virginia, while absorbing the energy of the collision.
	www.virginiaplaces.org /geology/rocksdui3.html (1715 words)

	Orogeny Pinot Noir
		Orogeny is a fairly new winery from the newer-named Green Valley AVA (that’s American Viticultural Area) in Sonoma County.
		What it means for Orogeny is a lovely wine gets to call a place home.
		Actually, it is kind of cool (fog pun intended) because it means we can hopefully taste the differences in place, even when those places are right next door, side by side.
	www.wilderonwine.com /Reviews/review_146.shtml (525 words)

	GORP - 100 Yosemite Hikes - The Nevadan Orogeny
		During this orogeny, magma mostly intruded an assemblage of older rocks lying west of the Park, accreting them to western North America.
		These lands have been called the Foothills belt and the Foothills terrane, but research in the 1980s and '90s, particularly by David Jones of the US Geological Survey, suggests that this belt is composed of at least five terranes.
		During the orogeny's maximum, the Sierra Nevada was a minor length of a major range, a cordillera, which extended along the western edge of both North America and South America.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/publishers/wildernesspress/yosemite/hik_yosem25.htm (299 words)

	Colorado Geology Overview
		During the Phanerozoic Ancestral Rocky Mountain and Laramide orogenies to follow, regional crustal shortening would exploit the old rift faults by reactivating them in reverse — hence the broad north- and northwest-trending tectonic grains still obvious in any shaded relief map of the modern Rockies and the Colorado Plateau.
		The regional deformation apparently occurred in response to the onset of accelerated, low-angle (flat-slab) subduction of the young Farallon plate beneath the western margin of North America.
		From 1.4 Ga to the Laramide, a deep, 160 km-long west-trending rift of Berthoud Orogeny ancestry in western Utah and adjoining northwest Colorado sheltered nearly 7.3 km (24,000') of terrigenous sediments washed into it from surrounding highlands.
	www.cliffshade.com /colorado/geo_overview.htm (10393 words)

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