| 单词 |
orogenesis |
| 释义 |
orogenesis Geol.|ɒrəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs| [f. Gr. ὄρος mountain + -genesis.] The formation of mountains.
1886W. B. Taylor in Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sc. XXXIV. 202 Does not this impartial testimony form a most suggestive..indication of the secret cause of orogenesis? 1925[see epeirogenesis]. 1970Nature 9 May 498/1 Basaltic dykes have been used to separate chronologically two principal periods of orogenesis. |

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