orogeny

English

Etymology

From French orogénie, from Ancient Greek ὄρος (óros, “mountain, high ground”) + γενεια (geneia, “creation, birth, making”). By surface analysis, oro- +‎ -geny.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɒˈɹɒdʒɪni/, /əˈɹɒdʒɪni/

Noun

orogeny (countable and uncountable, plural orogenies)

1. (geology) The process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust.
   • 1993, P. A. Cawood, “Acadian orogeny in west Newfoundland: Definition, character, and significance”, in David C. Roy, James William Skehan, editors, The Acadian Orogeny: Recent Studies in New England, Geological Society of America, page 138:

     The effects of Acadian orogeny are concentrated in central Newfoundland, decreasing in intensity to the east and west (Williams, this volume).

   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 102:

     When I asked Geoff Milnes what age the rocks were before they were turned into uncompromising gneisses by the Alpine orogeny he made a rueful face.

   • 2009, Robert S. Hildebrand, Did Westward Subduction Cause Cretaceous-Tertiary Orogeny in the North American Cordillera?, Geological Society of America, page 5:

     In Canada the fold-thrust belt formed during what is termed the Columbian orogeny (Monger and Price, 2002). Because the Sevier and Columbian orogenies were contemporaneous and constitute a single continuous and linear belt of rocks and structures, I use the term Cordillera orogeny to refer to the Cretaceous deformation that created the entire belt, whereas the term Laramide is used only to refer to a series of Late Cretaceous—Tertiary basement-involved uplifts, for the most part located in the Rocky Mountain foreland east of the fold-thrust belt and mainly south of the Lewis and Clark lineament (Fig. 1) in keeping with the original definition by Armstrong (1968).

Synonyms

• orogenesis

Antonyms

• taphrogeny

Derived terms

• orogenic
• orogenesis
• orogenous

Related terms

• orogen

Translations

the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust

• Arabic: تَكَوُّنُ الجِبَالِ m (takawwunu l-jibāli)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 造山運動／造山运动 (zh) (zàoshān yùndòng)

• Czech: orogeneze f
• Dutch: orogenese f
• Georgian: ოროგენეზისი (orogenezisi), მთათწარმოქმნა (mtatc̣armokmna), ოროგენეზი (orogenezi), ოროგენი (orogeni)
• German: Orogenese f, Gebirgsbildung (de) f
• Greek: ορογένεση (el) f (orogénesi)
• Irish: oraigineas m
• Italian: orogenia f
• Japanese: 造山運動 (ja) (ぞうざんうんどう, zōzanundō)
• Kazakh: орогенез (orogenez)
• Korean: 조산운동(造山運動) (ko) (josanundong)
• Latin: orogenesis f
• Macedonian: гороо́бразба f (goroóbrazba), орогене́за f (orogenéza)
• Persian: کوه‌زایی (fa)
• Portuguese: orogenia (pt) f, orogénese (pt) f (Portugal), orogênese (pt) f (Brazil)
• Russian: горообразование (ru) n (goroobrazovanije), орогенез (ru) m (orogenez)
• Spanish: orogenia (es) f
• Tamil: மலை பிறப்பு (malai piṟappu)
• Thai: การก่อเทือกเขา
• Turkish: orojenez (tr)
• Uzbek: orogenez
• Vietnamese: kiến tạo sơn (建造山), kiến tạo núi (建造𡶀)

Further reading

• orogeny on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• goonery