An extra 10 points to Damian in that piece for using the word "orogeny", which I'm embarrassed to say. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Scientist said that Halong bay has experienced at least 500 million years in various of ancient geographic condition such as orogeny, marine transgression and marine regression. From Wordnik.com. [The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] Reference
Denali (an orogeny in progress) (even the summit!). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
Have I mentioned that this land is Taconic orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [Something Unpredictable] Reference
The Alpine orogeny has shaped the complex Pyrenean landform. From Wordnik.com. [Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests] Reference
Namely, that the Pleistocene may have started with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama during the previous orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [Realclimate on O&B « Climate Audit] Reference
This range was shaped by an intense Alpine orogeny into a complex landscape characterized by steep rocky slopes, amazing canyons, karstic high plains, and high summits. From Wordnik.com. [Cantabrian mixed forests] Reference
These mountains are part of the western Iberian old Hercynian system, which constitutes medium elevations with a smooth relief, scarcely influenced by the Alpine orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [Northwest Iberian montane forests] Reference
Neotropical floristic diversity: Phytogeographical connections between Central and South America, Pleistocene climatic fluctuations, or an accident of the Andean orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [Serra do Mar coastal forests] Reference
Ogden Tweto, the foremost expert on the Laramide orogeny, believes the New Rockies began to emerge 72,000,000 years ago, with the process terminating about 43,000,000 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
The southern mountain range, like the one at the lower tip of the peninsula which was folded during the same orogeny, was a refuge for the flora and fauna of a continent during the Ice Age. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
Alternately, the Galician-Portuguese Western extreme of the ecoregion is characterized by lower smooth elevations, which correspond to very old massifs shaped by the late Paleozoic Hercynian orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [Cantabrian mixed forests] Reference
Uplifted and folded into a series of parallel ridges during the orogeny that had brought the whole continent into sharp relief, the rugged terrain of this farthest east expansion of the extensive mountain system was clothed with verdant life. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
This is the northernmost and wettest of the central Asian depressions, remnants of a Tertiary era inland sea, with relict glaciers, glacier lakes and a wide variety of rock types, the result of a long series of successive eras of deposition and orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia] Reference
The Calderian orogeny in Wopmay orogen (1.9 Ga), northwestern Canadian Shield. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
This was metamorphosed during Svecokarelian orogeny (mountain building event) in the Proterozoic. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles] Reference
Davos is surrounded by the evidence of orogeny and the tectonic plates of politics and banking came together in the Alpine ski resort on Thursday. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The second were dated at about 1 Ga, during the early stages of the Sveconorwegian orogeny, while the third generation were dated at between 456-277 Ma. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles] Reference
Magmatic and metamorphic events during the early Paleozoic Wuyi-Yunkai orogeny, southeastern South China: New age constraints and pressure-temperature conditions. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
If you familiarize yourself with geologic time, the craton, changes in depositional environments, plate collisions, orogeny, and erosion, the Rockies become much more comprehensible. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
These rocks are Carboniferous, about 320 million years old, so are too young to have been folded in the Caledonian orogeny which marked the closure of the Iapetus Ocean; when these rocks were deposited, that was getting on for 100 million years in the past. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
There’s a big mound of sand left of the house, but this land is Taconic orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [Something Unpredictable] Reference
Somehow, Delilah thought as he pressed her back into the earth, the Taconic orogeny didn’t seem made of clay and shale. From Wordnik.com. [Something Unpredictable] Reference
(Post a new comment) orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [ccfinlay: The Wages Of Happiness] Reference
(Reply to this) (Parent) orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [ccfinlay: This Morning's Email From My Wife] Reference
Posted by orogeny in reply to a comment from Carol Soprano. From Wordnik.com. [Obama On Wright: "I Might Not Know Him As Well As I Thought"] Reference
Posted by: Just Andrew at August 6, 2004 10: 18 AM beware: subduction leads to orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [pangea? i hardly know her] Reference
They were formed in Caledonian orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
(link) Yes, what orogeny said. From Wordnik.com. [ccfinlay: True Story... Now With Pictures!] Reference
Posted by: orogeny on March 19, 2009 at 4: 47 PM |. From Wordnik.com. [Political Animal] Reference
Huh? orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [Balloon Juice] Reference
/a thinking of orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [Top Information about Home Management] Reference
Reply to this) orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [ccfinlay: When Nobody Loses We All Lose] Reference
Reply to this) (Parent) orogeny. From Wordnik.com. [ccfinlay: O, Canada!] Reference
The Alpine orogeny has been intense, resulting in steep, complex reliefs (Gran Sasso, 2,912 meters (m); Mount Vettore, 2,476 m; Mount Velino, 2,487 m; La Maiella, 2,793; La Meta, 2,241 m). From Wordnik.com. [Appenine deciduous montane forests] Reference
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