Orogen

The process continues today, resulting in the particularly active and dramatic St. Elias "orogen" - geologists 'word for mountains that grow from collision of tectonic plates. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Geologic correlation of the Himalayan orogen and Indian craton: Part 2. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Geologic correlation of the Himalayan orogen and Indian craton: Part 1. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Calderian orogeny in Wopmay orogen (1.9 Ga), northwestern Canadian Shield ❋ Unknown (2010)

Intraplate orogenic belts are the most obvious exception to the plate tectonic paradigm, which assumes that plate interiors are rigid and undeformable, and that orogen-scale deformation occurs exclusively at plate margins. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They demonstrate that the orogen likely developed over a Neoproterozoic failed continental rift that was linked to the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hildebrand et al. present a study on Wopmay orogen - a nearly two-billion-year-old belt of rocks that formed when the leading edge of the Slave continent, now located in northwestern Canada, was pulled beneath a microcontinent, which contained a volcanic regime similar to the present-day Ring of Fire. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When the boundary of a plate is a continent, the resulting deformation, or orogen can be very broad and diffuse. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The orogen experienced crustal thickening and high-temperature decompressional melting, resulting in widespread syn - to late-orogenic granitic intrusions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Results are discussed to constrain the early evolution of the Zagros orogen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Longmen Shan mountain range, site of the devastating 12 May 2008 Wenchuan (M = 7.9) earthquake, defines the eastern margin of the Himalayan orogen and exhibits greater topographic relief than anywhere else in the Tibetan plateau. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here Kellet et al. use the high spatial and analytical resolution of the SHRIMP (sensitive high resolution ion microprobe) to examine the U-Pb age and trace element characteristics of growth rims on zircon grains within leucogranites that crystallized in the Miocene within the Himalayan orogen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

According to James A. Spotila, from the Virginia Tech geosciences department, the research showed how a change in climate led to a change in the way the motion of tectonic plates is accommodated by structural deformation within the orogen. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While the river systems coming off the Andes may have high sediment flux locally, they are numerous and are spread across the orogen. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As glacial conditions took hold across the St. Elias orogen, the landscape began to be defined by glacial landforms left on its surface. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"And the St. Elias orogen behaves very differently than ones that are at lower latitudes and receive most of their precipitation as rain," he said. ❋ Unknown (2008)