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Definition of Orogenic
1. Adjective. (geology) Concerned with orogeny; pertaining to the creation of mountains. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Orogenic
1. orogeny [adj] - See also: orogeny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orogenic
Literary usage of Orogenic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"The work included under the third head is orogenic. I, GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
BEARING ON THE EARTH'S FORM. 1. Solidification of the earth. ..."
2. Igneous Rocks and Their Origin by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1914)
"orogenic Effects.—.By the development of a geosynclinal down- warp, the shell of
compression is weakened, as experimentally illustrated by Willis in his ..."
3. Manual of the Geology of Connecticut by William North Rice, Herbert Ernest Gregory (1908)
"orogenic Movements.— It has been already remarked that all of the Highland rocks
which show indications of stratification have the strata greatly disturbed, ..."
4. Geology and Agriculture by Louisiana Geological Survey (1902)
"CLOSE OF THE CRETACEOUS ERA orogenic movements and their results.—The close of
the Cretaceous era was marked in this particular region by orogenic movements ..."
5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"The orogenic disturbances at the close of the Jurassic may have been comparable
in kind and in extent to those which affected the continent at the close of ..."
6. World-life; Or, Comparative Geology by Alexander Winchell (1888)
"orogenic FORCES. The inequalities in the contour of the terrestrial surface are
scarcely more familiar than the orographic phenomena which diversify the ..."
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