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English
Etymology
From orogeny + -ous.
Adjective
orogenous (comparative more orogenous, superlative most orogenous)
- (geology, often humorous, by analogy to erogenous) Of or relating to mountain-building; orogenic.
The gradual uplift of mountains is the most common form of orogenous activity.
1970, Proceedings of the United Nations Symposium on the Development and Utilisation of Geothermal Resources, vol. 2, part 2, page 1229:Within the remaining young circumpacific orogenous belt there are mainly two regions of special interest with regard to geothermal conditions left for consideration...
1980, Nils-Axel Morner, editor, Earth Rheology, Isostasy, and Eustasy, John Wiley & Sons, page 428:The Fergana intermountain depression falls into the orogenous class structures...
Being part of post-Paleozoic activation region it has gone through a number of orogenous epochs...
1993, L.P. Zonenshain Memorial Conference on Plate Tectonics: Programme and Abstracts, page 27:[O]rogenous uplifts grow continuously...
1999, Jean Terschuren, “Action plan for Cypripedium calceolus in Europe”, in Nature and Environment, number 100, page 42:Orogenous spruce, larch and arolla, mountain pine forests and plantations
Western Palaearcic orogenous spruce forests