orogeny

Orogeny is the geological process by which mountains are formed, typically through the collision, subduction, or lateral movement of tectonic plates that deform and uplift the Earth's crust.

Aliases (2)

• Paleozoic mountain-building event ×1
• mountain-building process ×1

Instances (10)

• Appalachian orogeny
• Caledonian orogeny
• Himalayan orogeny
• Andean orogeny
• Taconic orogeny
• Acadian orogeny
• Ouachita orogeny
• Variscan orogeny