Process

Orogeny

oh-ROJ-uh-nee

Also Known As Mountain Building

Geology

The building of mountain belts where converging plates crumple, thicken and uplift the crust. The Himalaya, still rising as India drives into Asia, the Alps, and the ancient worn-down Appalachians each record an orogeny, and reading deformed rock for the mountain belts it once belonged to is one of geology's oldest skills. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts

Timescale

Tens of millions of years for a major mountain belt 1

Driving Force

The collision of tectonic plates, principally continent-continent or continent-arc collision, which thickens and deforms the crust. 1

Resulting Feature

An orogenic belt: one or more mountain ranges formed as the compressed plate crumples and is uplifted. 1

Significance

Orogeny builds the world's major mountain ranges and is a principal way geologists identify ancient plate boundaries now buried deep within continental interiors. 1

Driving Force

Driving Force (category)

Tectonic 1

Timescale

Timescale (category)

Years to Decades 1

Orogeny

238 entries

Formation Family

Discipline

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Folding

A fold belt is a common feature of orogenic zones.

Source Fold, Geology (Wikipedia)

Caused By

Plate Tectonics

Mountain belts rise where converging plates collide or subduct.

Source Orogeny (Wikipedia)

Causes

Mount Mecula

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Mecula

Mount Melbourne

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Melbourne

Mount Meru

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Meru

Mount Monadnock

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Monadnock

Mount Muhabura

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Muhabura

Mount Namuli

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Namuli

Mount Oxley

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Oxley

Mount Pinatubo

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Pinatubo

Mount Pulag

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Pulag

Mount Rainier

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Rainier

Mount Sabyinyo

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Sabyinyo

Mount Sidley

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Sidley

Mount Silali

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Silali

Mount Takahe

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Takahe

Mount Wachusett

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Wachusett

Mount Wudinna

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Wudinna

Mountain chain

Source Mountain chain (Wikipedia)

Muddus Plains

Source Muddus plains (Wikipedia)

Muztagh Ata

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Muztagh Ata

Muztagh Tower

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Muztagh Tower

Nandi Hills

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Nandi Hills

Nanga Parbat

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Nanga Parbat

Nevado del Huila

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Nevado del Huila

Nevado del Quindío

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Nevado del Quindio

Nevado del Tolima

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Nevado del Tolima

Nevado San Francisco

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Nevado San Francisco

Nevado Tres Cruces

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Nevado Tres Cruces

Nunatak

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Nunatak

Ojos del Salado

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Ojos del Salado

Paektu Mountain

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Paektu Mountain

Paiju Peak

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Paiju Peak

Paka

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Paka

Pamir Mountains

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Pamir Mountains

Panola Mountain

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Panola Mountain

Peak Korzhenevskaya

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Peak Korzhenevskaya

Pedra da Galinha Choca

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Pedra da Galinha Choca

Pedra do Bau

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Pedra do Bau

Peninsula

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Peninsula

Pico Bolivar

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Pico Bolivar

Pico Bonpland

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Pico Bonpland

Pidurangala Rock

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Pidurangala Rock

Piedmont Mountains

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Piedmont Mountains

Piedmonttreppen

Source Piedmonttreppen (Wikipedia)

Piedra del Cocuy

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Piedra del Cocuy

Pietra di Bismantova

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Pietra di Bismantova

Pinacate Peaks

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Pinacate Peaks

Pingo

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Pingo

Pyrenees

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Pyrenees

Rakaposhi

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Rakaposhi

Rimo I

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Rimo I

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In Discipline

Geology

Source Orogeny (Wikipedia)

Sources

1. Orogeny (Wikipedia)

Wikimedia Foundation

Introduction
An orogenic belt or orogen develops as the compressed plate crumples and is uplifted to form one or more mountain ranges.
Introduction, definition sentence
is a mountain-building process that takes place at a convergent plate margin when plate motion compresses the margin.

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Jura Mountains (Wikipedia)

Causes: Jura Mountains, Article text

Quote, Causes: Jura Mountains, Article text

This deformation accommodates the compression from alpine folding as the main Alpine orogenic front moves roughly northwards.

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Caledonian orogeny (Wikipedia)

Causes: Caledonian Orogeny, Lead paragraph

Quote, Causes: Caledonian Orogeny, Lead paragraph

The Caledonian orogeny was a mountain-building cycle recorded in the northern parts of the British Isles, the Scandinavian Caledonides, Svalbard, eastern Greenland and parts of north-central Europe

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Illimani (Wikipedia)

Causes: Illimani, Lead paragraph

Quote, Causes: Illimani, Lead paragraph

Its formation results from the ancient folding associated with the Andean orogeny, as with the majority of the neighboring mountains in the cordillera

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Muddus plains (Wikipedia)

Causes: Muddus Plains, Lead paragraph

Quote, Causes: Muddus Plains, Lead paragraph

The plains formed in connection to the uplift of the northern Scandinavian Mountains in the Paleogene

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Vasquez Rocks (Wikipedia)

Causes: Vasquez Rocks, Lead section (caused-by Orogeny)

Quote, Causes: Vasquez Rocks, Lead section (caused-by Orogeny)

It is known for its rock formations, the result of sedimentary layering and later tectonic uplift.

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Trans-Hudson orogeny (Wikipedia)

Causes: Trans-Hudson Orogen, Lead

Quote, Causes: Trans-Hudson Orogen, Lead

The Trans-Hudson orogeny or Trans-Hudsonian orogeny was the major mountain building event (orogeny) that formed the Precambrian Canadian Shield and the North American Craton (also called Laurentia), forging the initial North American continent.

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Mountain chain (Wikipedia)

Causes: Mountain chain, Lead sentence

Quote, Causes: Mountain chain, Lead sentence

Elongated mountain chains occur most frequently in the orogeny of fold mountains, (that are folded by lateral pressure), and nappe belts (where a sheetlike body of rock has been pushed over another rock mass).

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Hill chain (Wikipedia)

Causes: Hill chain, Lead sentence

Quote, Causes: Hill chain, Lead sentence

The chain-like arrangement of hills in a chain is a consequence of their collective formation by mountain building forces or ice age earth movements.

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Chink (geology) (Wikipedia)

Causes: Chink (geology), Lead sentence

Quote, Causes: Chink (geology), Lead sentence

Chinks may also result from tectonic uplifts.

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Piedmonttreppen (Wikipedia)

Causes: Piedmonttreppen, Lead sentence

Quote, Causes: Piedmonttreppen, Lead sentence

A piedmonttreppen or piedmont benchland is a conceived landform consisting in a succession of benches at different heights and that forms in sequence during the uplift of a geological dome.

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Central Valley (California) (Wikipedia)

Causes: Central Valley (California), Article text

Quote, Causes: Central Valley (California), Article text

The valley was enclosed by the uplift of the Coast Ranges, with its original outlet into Monterey Bay.

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Spiti (Wikipedia)

Causes: Spiti, Article text

Quote, Causes: Spiti, Article text

Over millennia, the Spiti River and its tributaries such as the Pin River, have cut deep gorges in the uplifted sedimentary strata.

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Fort Valley (Virginia) (Wikipedia)

Causes: Fort Valley (Virginia), Article text

Quote, Causes: Fort Valley (Virginia), Article text

The Fort Valley and Massanutten mountain range is the result of the Alleghanian Orogeny, the geologic process where a continental plate crumples and is pushed upwards to form mountain ranges.

Acatenango

Aconcagua

Adam's Peak

Alcovy Mountain

Alpamayo

Altai Mountains

Alvar

An Teallach

Antisana

Arabia Mountain

Aso Rock

Atlas Mountains

Ausangate

Avatar Hallelujah Mountain

Baintha Brakk

Baltoro Kangri

Barrancas Blancas

Batura Sar

Beinn Eighe

Bektauata

Belogradchik Rocks

Belukha Mountain

Ben Amera

Ben Loyal

Blue Ridge Mountains

Boyagin Rock

Broad Peak

Bukhansan

Bulusan Volcano

Caledonian Orogeny

Canisp

Cape Fold Belt

Carpathian Mountains

Central Valley (California)

Cerro Autana

Cerro de Arcos

Cerros de Mavecure

Chachani

Chambers Pillar

Chapada Diamantina

Chimanimani Mountains

Chink (geology)

Chogolisa

Colvocoresses Reef

Copiapo

Corbetti Caldera

Corcovado

Cotopaxi

Crowders Mountain

Dallol

Dambulla Rock

Dedo de Deus

Diran

Distaghil Sar

Dolomites

Drakensberg

Dufek Massif

Dundret

Ediacara Hills

Ellsworth Mountains

Executive Committee Range

Falso Azufre

Fort Valley (Virginia)

Gamburtsev Mountains

Gasherbrum I

Gasherbrum II

Gasherbrum III

Gasherbrum IV

Glärnisch

Glen

Granite Dome

Hajar Mountains

Hill chain

Hogback

Horns of Hattin

Huangshan

Huascaran

Huayna Potosi

Illampu

Illimani