orogeny
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noun
- The process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust.
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From French orogénie, from Ancient Greek ὄρος (óros, “mountain, high ground”) + γενεια (geneia, “creation, birth, making”). By surface analysis, oro- + -geny.
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