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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

Connections

Associated With

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

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: Liberty Cap

Mahagnao Volcano

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: Mahagnao Volcano

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: Malubiting

Wikidata P31 (Q9381142) mapped to formative process Orogeny via earth5 extended reviewed judgment map; source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Malvern 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: Masherbrum

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: Matobo 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: Mont Megantic

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: Monte Pissis

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: Moro Rock

Mount Agamenticus

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 Agamenticus

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 Ascutney

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 Asgard

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 Banahaw

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 Berlin

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 Bisoke

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 Buffalo

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 Cameroon

Mount Chiperone

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 Chiperone

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 Conner

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 Cooroora

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 Danxia

Mount Discovery

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 Discovery

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 Elgon

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 Erongo

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 Fentale

Mount Guiting-Guiting

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 Guiting-Guiting

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 Halcon

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 Hombori

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 Iriga

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 Isarog

Mount Jianglang

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 Jianglang

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 Kadam

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 Kailash

Mount Karisimbi

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 Karisimbi

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 Kenya

Mount Kilimanjaro

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 Kilimanjaro

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 Kinabalu

Mount Kirkpatrick

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 Kirkpatrick

Mount Kitanglad

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 Kitanglad

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 Kulal

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 Langshan

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 Ledang

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 Lico

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 Longonot

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 Mabu

Mount Malindang

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 Malindang

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 Marsabit

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 Matutum

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In Discipline

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.

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