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unusual facts about orogeny



Cadomian Orogeny

L Bertrand gave the orogeny its name in 1921, naming it after Cadomus the Gaulish name for Caen in Normandy.

Caledonian orogeny

Geologists like Émile Haug and Hans Stille saw the Caledonian orogeny as one of several episodic phases of mountain building that had occurred during the Earth's history.

Cornubia

A geologists' name for a former island which existed in the Mesozoic and during continental drift and orogeny became an area of land in or around Cornwall.

Northern Croatian Littoral

Foothills of mountains forming the northeast boundary of the region, as well as islands in the Kvarner Gulf, are a part of the Dinaric Alps, linked to a Late Jurassic to recent times fold and thrust belt, itself part of the Alpine orogeny, extending southeast from the southern Alps.

Rangitata Orogeny

The Rangitata Orogeny (an orogeny named after the Rangitata River), was a long period of uplift and collision in New Zealand.

Tropolje

Mountainous terrain of the region is a part of the Dinaric Alps, linked to a Late Jurassic to recent times fold and thrust belt, itself part of the Alpine orogeny, extending southeast from the southern Alps.


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