orogenic belt in a sentence
Examples
- The Black Hills of South Dakota is one of the few remaining exposed portions of the Trans-Hudson orogenic belt.
- The Steep Belt effectively marks the southeastern edge of the intensely folded region of the Caledonian Orogenic Belt in central Wales.
- It is also the southern continuation of the Thelon Magmatic Zone, an orogenic belt between the Slave and Churchill cratons.
- It is important to separate local from large-scale tectonic history of the orogenic belt in order to understand the orogeny.
- In geology the "'Ukrainian Shield "'( or Ukrainian Crystalline Massif ) is the southwest orogenic belts.
- The Central Orogenic Belt is mainly rocky mountains up to 2, 360 metres ( 7, 740 ft ) in elevation.
- The "'Merisi Mining District "'is situated in Adjara region in close vicinity to the orogenic belt.
- Prior to 1550 Ma the craton comprised a number of active Proterozoic orogenic belts extending back in time to at least 2450 Ma.
- At the same time, the internal zones of the orogenic belt were affected by large extensional structure of the back-arc Pannonian Basin.
- Here, the orogenic belt attains a trapezoidal shape dominated by oblique splay faults, steeply-dipping recumbent nappes and fault-bend folds.