orogeny in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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In addition to orogeny, the orogen once formed is subject to other processes, such as sedimentation and erosion.
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When geothermal activity turns into orogeny (the formation of mountains), the mine is pushed out from the subterranean stratum and raised high up together.
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These ideas had to be adjusted with plate tectonics as the mechanism of orogeny.
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It is also found in alpine peridotite massifs that represent slivers of sub-continental mantle exposed during collisional orogeny.
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This relative thickness may be why compressional forces from the orogeny were mostly transmitted through the province instead of deforming it.
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