| NOUN | an orogenic belt | orogenic belts |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- The closure of this ocean is preserved in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, the largest orogen on Earth.
- Here, the orogenic belt attains a trapezoidal shape dominated by oblique splay faults, steeply-dipping recumbent nappes and fault-bend folds.
- The Perry Fault, a major regional strike-slip structure in South East Queensland is in the New England Orogenic Belt.
- The Alps form part of a Cenozoic orogenic belt of mountain chains, called the Alpide belt, that stretches through southern Europe and Asia from the Atlantic all the way to the Himalayas.
- The region affected by the orogeny, the "Uralian orogenic belt" or the "Uralides", is usually thought of as the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- This orogenic belt was in place by 1.6 mya and continues to be a hot spot of earthquakes and volcanoes.
- Prominently orogenic belts on the Earth are the circum-Pacific orogenic belt (Pacific Ring of Fire) and Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt.
- The total late Caledonian displacement on the Great Glen Fault is poorly constrained, making reconstruction of the southern part of the orogenic belt difficult.
- An "orogenic belt" or "orogen" develops as the compressed plate crumples and is uplifted to form one or more mountain ranges.
- The core regions of the Alpine orogenic belt have been folded and fractured in such a manner that erosion created the characteristic steep vertical peaks of the Swiss Alps that rise seemingly straight out of the foreland areas.
- The collision with the Eurasian Plate along the boundary between India and Nepal formed the orogenic belt that created the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalaya Mountains, as sediment bunched up like earth before a plow.
- Nonhydrostatic stress is characteristic of regional metamorphism where mountain building is taking place (an orogenic belt).
- Fluid inclusions trapped in veins and minerals have been used as a proxy to explore the deformation history in orogenic belts.
- Orogenic belts can form during the assembly of continents and supercontinents.
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