alpine orogeny in a sentence

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1. Alpine orogeny started as early as the Mesozoic with the formation of the Alpide belt, some 200 Mya.
2. From the Eocene onwards, the ongoing Alpine orogeny caused a N S rift system to develop in this zone.
3. The Western Carpathians are an fold and thrust system called the Alpide belt, which evolved during the Alpine orogeny.
4. The formation of the Alps ( the Alpine orogeny ) was an episodic process that began about 300 million years ago.
5. The two mountains are possible remnants of a volcanic arc related to Alpine orogeny & mdash; uplifting of the Dinaric Alps.
6. Similar geologic evidence can be seen in the Alpine orogeny of Europe, where the movement of the African plate raised the Alps.
7. The tectonic uplift of the massif occurred late in the alpine orogeny, during the Oligocene, 30 to 40 million years ago.
8. The basement is traversed by major east-west-striking, late Variscan fracture zones that were reactivated during the alpine orogeny cycle.
9. The long-range effects of the Alpine Orogeny were relatively strong in this area and the effects of the Pleistocene glaciations were small.
10. Some of the species of moths and insects show evidence of having been indigenous to the area from as long ago as the Alpine orogeny.