List of orogenies

African orogenies

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Antarctic orogenies

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Asian orogenies

• Aravalli-Delhi Orogen – Precambrian
• Altaid Orogeny – Paleozoic Era
• during the Permian Period
• Cimmerian and Cathaysian orogenies
• * Active through Triassic and Jurassic Periods along south and southeast Asia.
• Dabie-Sulu orogeny – Mesozoic Era
• Persia–Tibet–Burma orogeny – Cenozoic Era; caused by the continuing collision of the Arabian and Indian Plates with the Eurasian Plate, encompassing:
• * Himalayan orogeny – Forming the Himalaya Mountains

European orogenies

• – Formation of an extensive area of tonalitic-trondhjemitic crust in Fennoscandia,
• – Formation of two different types of terrain compatible with plate tectonic concepts. One is a belt of high-grade gneisses formed in a regime of strong mobility, while the other is a region of granitoid intrusions and greenstone belts surrounded by the remnants of a Saamian substratum,
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• – Formation of tonalitic-granodioritic plutonic rocks and calc-alkaline volcanites,
• – Essentially reworking of previously formed crust,
• – Affecting the northern Baltic Shield during the Neoproterozoic Era,
• – On the north coast of Armorica in the Ediacaran/Cambrian,
• – Deformation of the western Scandinavian Peninsula, Britain and Ireland, in the Ordovician Grampian phase and the Silurian Scandian phase
• – Deformation in western Iberia, southwest Ireland, southwest England, central and western France, southern Germany and Czech Republic, during the Devonian and Carboniferous Periods
• , during the Permian Period.
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• * The Formation of the Alps, during the Eocene through Miocene Periods
• * – Building the Carpathian Mountains of eastern Europe, during the Jurassic-Cretaceous to Miocene Period
• * – In Greece and the Aegean area, during Eocene through Miocene Periods

North American orogenies

• – Superior province, South Dakota to Lake Huron, late Archean Eon
• – Along western edge of Canadian Shield,
• – Extends from Hudson Bay west into Saskatchewan then south through the western Dakotas and Nebraska. Result of the collision of the Superior craton with the Hearne craton and the Wyoming craton, during the Proterozoic Eon
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• – Collision at the southern margin of the North Atlantic Craton, late Paleoproterozoic Era
• – Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and southern Ontario,
• – Proterozoic collision between the Hearne craton and the Wyoming craton in southwest Montana,
• – Mojave Desert region, southwestern U.S.
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• – Mid to southwestern U.S.,
• – Mid to southwestern U.S.,
• – Worldwide, during the late Proterozoic Eon. Associated with the assembly of the supercontinent Rodinia. Formed folded mountains in eastern North America from Newfoundland to North Carolina,
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• * – From Cryogenian to Devonian Periods
• * – In the northeastern U.S. and Canada, during the Ordovician Period
• * – In the eastern U.S., during the Silurian and Devonian Periods
• – Usually seen as the same as the Variscan orogeny in Europe
• * Appalachian Mountains are a well-studied orogenic belt resulting from a late Paleozoic collision between North America and Africa.
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• Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma is an orogenic belt that dates from the late Paleozoic Era and is most likely a continuation of the Appalachian orogeny west across the Mississippi embayment – Reelfoot Rift zone.
• – Ancestral Sierra Nevada, western U.S., from late Devonian Period to early Mississippian age
• – Innuitian Mountains, Canadian Arctic, extending from Ellesmere Island to Melville Island, Mississippian age
• – Rocky Mountains, western North America,
• – Developed along western North America, during the Jurassic Period
• – Rocky Mountains, western North America,
• – Rocky Mountains, western North America,
• – Transverse Ranges, western North America, Pleistocene Period to present day

Oceania orogenies

Australian orogenies

• – Gawler craton, South Australia,
• – Glenburgh Terrane, Western Australia,
• – MacArthur Basin, northern Australia,
• – Gawler craton, South Australia,
• – Gawler craton, South Australia
• – Gawler craton, South Australia
• – North Yilgarn craton margin, Western Australia,
• – Western Australia,
• – Gascoyne Complex, Western Australia,
• – Mount Isa Block, Queensland,
• – Gawler craton, South Australia,
• – Olary Block, South Australia
• – Gascoyne Complex, Western Australia
• – Musgrave Block, Central Australia,
• – Gascoyne Complex, Western Australia,
• – Central Australia, late Neoproterozoic Era to Cambrian Period
• – South Australia and Victoria, Ordovician Period,
• – Victoria and New South Wales,
• – Northern continuation of the Lachlan Orogeny
• – Central Australia, early Carboniferous Period,
• – Victoria and New South Wales, Carboniferous Period
• – Queensland and New South Wales, Permian Period to Triassic Period
• Sprigg Orogeny – continuing uplift of the Flinders and Mt Lofty Ranges in South Australia

New Zealand orogenies

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South American orogenies

• – Paleoproterozoic
• Guriense orogeny
• – Brasilia Belt
• * – Paraguai Belt
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• – Sierra de la Ventana
• , Chilean Coast Range,
• , Andes Mountains,

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