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During the earlier extension stage immediately following theorogeny, some older enriched lithospheric mantle components might be incorporated into the depleted asthenospheric mantle.
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Orogenycan be very short.
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The general shear extrusion model we propose does not claim to account in detail, and at all scales, for the complexity of a natural process like anorogeny.
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This relative thickness may be why compressional forces from theorogenywere mostly transmitted through the province instead of deforming it.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This discovery provides a unifying theory for geology, linking phenomena such as volcanos, earthquakes,orogeny, and providing data for many paleogeographical questions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The relief resulting from theorogenywas the fundamental source of the delta sediments.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Due to geochemical differentiation slight differences in density would lead to vertical flow in the mantle, resulting inorogeny.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When geothermal activity turns intoorogeny(the formation of mountains), the mine is pushed out from the subterranean stratum and raised high up together.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is also found in alpine peridotite massifs that represent slivers of sub-continental mantle exposed during collisionalorogeny.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These ideas had to be adjusted with plate tectonics as the mechanism oforogeny.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.During regional metamorphism that occurs during the mountain building process (orogeny), limestone recrystallizes into marble.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Sedimentation stops once theorogenystops, or once the mountains have eroded flat.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The result is regional metamorphism within the interior of the ensuingorogenyor mountain building event.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These postorogenydeposits were dumped from braided stream channels.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In these areas, complex sequences of mountain building (orogeny) events have been documented over the past few hundred million years.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Frequently, rock formations that undergoorogenyare severely deformed and undergo metamorphism.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This results from the isostasy associated withorogeny(mountain formation).
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