mountain-building event
C4520
concept
A mountain-building event is a geological process, typically driven by plate tectonics, in which the Earth's crust is deformed, uplifted, and thickened to form mountain ranges over millions of years.
Aliases (2)
- Paleozoic orogeny ×2
- Cenozoic orogeny ×1
Instances (8)
- Appalachian orogeny
- Caledonian orogeny ("Paleozoic orogeny")
- Himalayan orogeny
- Taconic orogeny
- closure of Iapetus Ocean ("Paleozoic orogeny")
- Acadian orogeny
- Variscan orogeny