orogenic
adjUK /ɒɹə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪk/
Etymology From orogeny + -ic.
1
Geography, Geology, Natural sciences Concerned with orogeny; pertaining to the creation of mountains.
- For Suess, summing up folding and thrusting in a dozen mountain chains, orogenic events happened when the earth shrugged violently and pulled itself together.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 116:
- Antonyms
- taphrogenic
- Derived terms
- anorogenic, nonorogenic, orogenically, orogenic belt, synorogenic