orogenous zone

plural orogenous zones

1. humorousoftengeographyA region characterized by mountain-building.

   Orogenous zones are usually found along plate boundaries.

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   The villagers were astonished to learn that they were living in an orogenous zone.

   ...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

   Synonyms: orogenic belt, orogen