alpine orogeny in a sentence

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1. The northward movement of the African Plate and its collision with the European Plate then caused the Alpine Orogeny, beginning in the late Mesozoic.
2. The Alpine orogeny was the main cause of extensive tectonic activities and it was responsible for the formation of the hydrothermal field within the region.
3. During the Palaeogene the south-east of England was affected by movements related to the formation of the Alps ( the Alpine Orogeny ).
4. At this time, the Alpine Orogeny, the major mountain building event that was to produce the Alps, was in its early stages.
5. The Alpine Orogeny that occurred about 50 Ma was responsible for the shaping of the London Basin syncline and the Weald anticline to the south.
6. The Paratethys was separated from the Tethys by the formation of the Alps, Carpathians, Dinarides, Taurus and Elburz mountains during the Alpine orogeny.
7. The massif arose during the Alpine orogeny, when the African, Indian and Cimmerian Plates, and smaller Asian terranes, collided with that of Eurasia.
8. The uplift of the horst-like fault block was part of the Saxonian tectonic processes and is understood as a long range effect of the Alpine orogeny.
9. The Alpine Orogeny that took place about 50 million years ago was responsible for the shaping of the London Basin syncline and the Weald anticline to the south.
10. In general the Massif Central is an asymmetric basement plate elevated at its southern margin by the Pyrenees orogeny and along its eastern margin by the Alpine orogeny.