The Alpine orogeny or Alpide orogeny[dubious – discuss] is an orogenic phase in the Late Mesozoic (Eoalpine) and the current Cenozoic that has formed the...

Carboniferous Hercynian Orogeny Early Triassic Zagros rifting First (or early Oman) Alpine Orogeny Second (or late) Alpine Orogeny which led to the collection...

building. The Alpine orogeny occurred in ongoing cycles through to the Paleogene causing differences in folded structures, with a late-stage orogeny causing...

Plate changed from a divergent to convergent plate boundary. The Alpine Orogeny developed in response to the collision between the African and Eurasian...

since. In between the zone of Alpine orogeny and North Sea Basin subsidence, highlands resulting from an earlier orogeny (Variscan) remained, such as the...

years ago) period, tectonic activity increased again – just as the Alpine orogeny (Alps, Carpathians etc.) slowly came to an end. In that time, parts...

The Variscan orogeny, or Hercynian orogeny, was a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia)...

during the Alpine orogeny. A gap in these mountain chains in central Europe separates the Alps from the Carpathians to the east. Orogeny took place continuously...

stage of deformation during the Hercynian orogeny, but younger Alpine overprint is common. Alpine orogeny affected the area in several stages from Jurassic...

orogenies. Some orogenies encompass more than one continent and may have different names in each, and some very large orogenies include sub-orogenies...