orogenèse
- Domaine
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- géologietectonique
- Dernière mise à jour
Définition :
Ensemble des processus géodynamiques qui conduisent à la formation des chaînes de montagnes.
Note :
Les processus caractérisant les orogenèses comprennent : la déformation des roches, la surrection des masses rocheuses, le métamorphisme, le plutonisme et le volcanisme.
Termes privilégiés :
- orogenèse n. f.
- orogénie n. f.
Traductions
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anglais
Auteur : Office québécois de la langue française,Notes :
Interpreted literally, the term orogeny includes both the structural deformation of rocks and the uplift that raised the mountains as a topographic form. Orogeny is sometimes used in contrast to epeirogeny, the process of continent formation, a term signifying the more widely extended but gentler disturbances of the Earth's crust by which broader features such as continents and ocean basins have risen or sunk.
The term orogeny has a time connotation, either explicit or implicit. It always refers to a specific time range, e.g. Acadian Orogeny.Termes :
- orogeny
- orogenesis