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"Orogenic Belt"
Keywords:
arcuate
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mountain
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linear
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deformed
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metamorphosed
Related Terms:
Rift zone
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Orogeny
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Rift
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Massif
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Mountain
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Uplift
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Terrane
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Suture
,
Rifting
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Rift valley
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Moho
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Mohorovicic discontinuity
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Horst
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Tectonics
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Volcanic arc
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Hill
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Benioff zone
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Dip slope
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Passive margin
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Highlands
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Plateau
,
Thrust
,
Continental crust
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Monadnock
,
Mid-ocean ridge
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Graben
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Sea-floor spreading
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Mantle plume
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Oceanic ridge
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Subduction zone
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Hogback
,
Flood basalt
,
Oceanic crust
,
Physiographic province
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Craton
,
Subduction
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Transform fault
,
Plain
,
Tectonic plate
,
Tectonic plates
,
Cliff
,
Plate
,
Landform
,
Geomorphic
,
Spreading center
,
Fault scarp
,
Tectonic
,
Seafloor spreading
,
Divergent plate boundary
A linear or arcuate region of folded and uplifted rocks.
geology.com
A linear region that has been subjected to folding and other deformation in a mountain-building episode.
whfreeman.com
A mountain belt.
imnh.isu.edu
A major range of mountains on the continents.
physicalgeography.net
A linear or arcuate zone in the Earth’s crust characterised by deformed and metamorphosed rocks, usually associated with large plutonic intrusions in the deeper levels of the belt;
african-aura.com
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Keywords:
mountians
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event
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range
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formed
A range of mountians all formed in the same orogeny (event).
ruby.colorado.edu