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Orogenesis

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The central aim of the science of geody­namics is to elucidate the mechanism of mountain building, called orogenesis. The object of a theory of orogenesis is to explain the geo­graphic position and the physiographic character of an orogenetic system. Thus, the main features that have to be explained are the arcuate strike of mountain and island chains, the observed crustal shortening in the vicinity of mountains and the structure of the arcs.

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    Adrian E. Scheidegger Ph. D. (Toronto); Dipl. Phys. Eth. (Zürich)

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Scheidegger, A.E. (1958). Orogenesis. In: Principles of Geodynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01532-2_6

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