orogenic belt in a sentence

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1. While at Bryn Mawr College she began research on the evolution of convergent continental margin orogenic belts; she retired from this position in 2006.
2. Additional evidence comes from the distribution of certain sedimentary rock types, faunal provinces shown by particular fossil groups, and the position of orogenic belts.
3. The Paleoproterozoic ( about 2.5 to 2.0 Ga ) was the source of orogenic belts and the current configuration of the craton.
4. The external, generally northern, portion of the orogenic belt is a Tertiary accretionary prism of a so-called thick and thin-skinned nappes.
5. Its record is a prominent orogenic belt which spans a significant portion of the North American continent, from Labrador to Mexico, and extends to Scotland.
6. The region affected by the orogeny, the " Uralian orogenic belt, " is usually thought of as the boundary between Europe and Asia.
7. Analysis and radiometric dating of these high pressure and ultra high pressure metamorphic rocks can help reconstruct the tectonic evolution of the orogenic belt that formed them.
8. Nalunaq is located 33 km northeast of Nanortalik, in the Ketilidian Orogenic Belt of southern Greenland ( 60?212 293 N, 44?502 113 W ).
9. TMZ is an Andean-type continental magmatic arc and an orogenic belt between the subsurface Buffalo Head Terrane on the west and the Archean Churchill Province on the east.
10. There was little sedimentation on the eastern shores of the Seaway; the western boundary, however, consisted of a thick clastic wedge eroded eastward from the Sevier orogenic belt.