orogenous zone
nounEtymology By analogy to erogenous zone.
- Orogenous zones are usually found along plate boundaries.
- The villagers were astonished to learn that they were living in an orogenous zone.
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- ...an orogenous zone separates a deep subsiding western zone, over 3,000 meters deep, from a more stable eastern zone rising gently to the east.1960, M. Palmer, editor, World Petroleum, volume 31, page 65:
- The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending orogenous zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an alluvial valley on the west.1968, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, volumes 11-14, page vi:
- Structures due to strata compaction have been identified in the orogenous zone of North-Dobrogea (Independenta), in the Moesic Platform and in the Pannonian Depression (Teremia).1976, “Geomorphology and Paleogeography”, in Proceedings of the International Geographical Union, page 78:
- Grand knew the mountains well, he respected their moods, and above all he enjoyed the challenge of what Tumamait — when he still had a sense of humor — once referred to as "one of the earth's most seductive and temperamental orogenous zones."2001, Jeff Rovin, Fatalis: a Novel, Macmillan, page 28:
- Related terms
- orogeny