Rodinia was a supercontinent that included nearly all of Earth’s landmasses for about 450 million years during the ...

The cause of the Laramide phase of mountain building remains uncertain. Modelling and plate reconstructions show that Laramide events coincide with subduction of the Shatsky oceanic plateau ...

The Orogeny, from the initial subduction of continental margin sediments to the end of postflip shortening, lasted $\approx18$ million years (my). The collisional shortening, prograde-metamorphic ...

The orogeny dynamics, coupled with simultaneous diversification of subterranean habitats, presumably initiated ecological speciation and morphological diversification of this highly troglomorphic ...

The Journal of Geology, Vol. 86, No. 5 (Sep., 1978), pp. 643-646 (4 pages) Comparison of the early Ordovician Grampian orogeny in Scotland with Cenozoic collision belts elsewhere suggests that the ...

Orogeny is the process of mountain building, and may be studied as a tectonic structural event, as a geographical event and a chronological event, in that orogenic events cause distinctive ...

Can you guess what 'orogeny' mean? Learn about our latest geography word of the week now! The process of mountain formation that happens when two tectonic plates collide, either pushing the Earth’s ...

About 1.1 billion years ago, the oldest and most tectonically stable part of North America—called Laurentia—was rapidly ...