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Definition of Orogenesis

1. [n -GENESES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orogenesis

Literary usage of Orogenesis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thirsty Cities: Urban Environments and Water Supply in Latin Americaby Danilo J. Anton by Danilo J. Anton (1993)
"... lacustrine lahar lapilli lentic llanos (Spanish) lava magma massif mica schists migmatites molasse montmorillonite oligoclase orogenesis orography ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"526 orogenesis in tunicates .... 441 PACIFIC, Zoogeography of . . . Paleontology, Text-book of . ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1922)
"... connected with the eruptive action of the Cordilleran district during its Tertiary orogenesis. That this ash is probably wind-carried and water-laid, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1900)
"The foliated granulites on the southern border possess a secondary schistosity, due to orogenesis, superimposed upon a FIG. 13.—SECTION FROM ST. ..."

5. Managing Water for Peace in the Middle East; Alternative Strategies by Masahiro Murakami (1995)
"No evidence is known of post-Proterozoic structural movements characteristic of alpine orogenesis. The crustal movements affecting the country since the ..."

6. Permafrost: Second International Conference, July 13-28, 1973 : USSR by Frederick J. Sanger, Peter J. Hyde (1978)
"It appears that regions of orogenesis are not characterized by a general rise in the abyssal heat flux, but by its differentiation: by an increase in ..."

7. The Psychoanalytic Method by Oskar Pfister (1917)
"But there the orogenesis is only acquired. When children strive to obtain heightened irritation of the anus by holding back the stool (in which, ..."

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