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Adjective

orogenic ‎(comparative more orogenic, superlative most orogenic)

1. (geology) Concerned with orogeny; pertaining to the creation of mountains.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 116:

     For Suess, summing up folding and thrusting in a dozen mountain chains, orogenic events happened when the earth shrugged violently and pulled itself together.

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