“For Suess, summing up folding and thrusting in a dozen mountain chains, orogenic events happened when the earth shrugged violently and pulled itself together.”
“Extension of these subsidence patterns beyond 305 Ma depends on how far northwards the orogenic load advanced.”
“The position of the orogenic load during the Late Carboniferous is poorly constrained.”
orogenous
(erogenous) Of or relating to mountain-building; orogenic.
