In geology, orogenic collapse is the thinning and lateral spread of thickened crust. It is a broad term referring to processes which distribute material...

present-day Scandinavian Mountains. The Caledonian Mountains began a post-orogenic collapse in the Devonian, implying tectonic extension and subsidence. Despite...

tectonic event throughout this 200 million years can be considered as an orogenic phase." This includes tectonic events which were smaller, localised and...

orogenic belt which spans a significant portion of the North American continent, from Labrador to Mexico, as well as to Scotland. Grenville orogenic crust...

the Caledonian Orogeny wound down in the later part of the period, orogenic collapse facilitated a cluster of granite intrusions in Scotland. Most of Laurussia...

which was intruded deep into the thickened crust of the SGT during Orogenic collapse of the Pan-African highlands. After approximately 800-500 million...

the Slide Mountain Ocean. Along the northern margin of Laurussia, orogenic collapse of the Late Devonian to Early Mississippian Innuitian orogeny led...

crust has been thinned through various processes, including post-orogenic collapse and crustal extension. This extension is responsible for the formation...

Scandinavian Caledonides are the vestiges of an ancient, today deeply eroded orogenic belt formed during the Silurian–Devonian continental collision of Baltica...

S2CID 4326485. Dunlap, J. W.; Fossen, H. (1998). "Early Paleozoic orogenic collapse, tectonic stability, and late Paleozoic continental rifting revealed...

The Alps form part of a Cenozoic orogenic belt of mountain chains, called the Alpide belt, that stretches through southern Europe and Asia from the Atlantic...

March 2023. TURNER, S. (1 June 1999). "Magmatism Associated with Orogenic Collapse of the Betic-Alboran Domain, SE Spain". Journal of Petrology. 40 (6):...

& Miller, E. L. "Extension of the Basin and Range Province: Late orogenic collapse or something else?". Retrieved May 11, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint:...

argued that extension during post-orogenic collapse is a more effective mechanism of lowering the height of orogenic mountains than erosion. Examples of...

crust and lithospheric mantle related? What is the role of extension, orogenic collapse, and rifting in constructing the continents? EarthScope acquired 3D...

under a dominant wind direction. Dynamic topography Glacial buzzsaw Orogenic collapse Post-glacial rebound Willett, Sean D.; Hovius, Niels; Brandon, Mark...

wedge, by obduction and/or as a process during the orogenic cycle (i.e. mountain building and collapse cycle). During the subduction of an oceanic plate...

late Eocene to early Miocene, this could be evidence the Sevier orogenic event collapsing after deactivation. Thickening of the crust due to Sevier and...

synkinematic leucogranites and monzogranites. Phase D5. Asturian phase. Post-orogenic collapse at the end of the Carboniferous (Kasimovian). The stresses causing...

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It formed as a result of extensional tectonics as part of the post-orogenic collapse of crust that was thickened during the Caledonian Orogeny towards...

and extensive melting of the crust followed by a transition to post-orogenic collapse, an episode which is preserved in the Choiyoi Group volcanic province...

the present day regional lithosphere, and by the time of the post-orogenic collapse of the Variscan Orogeny the supercontinent Pangea had completely formed...

Meseta (volcano), a partially collapsed volcanic vent of Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala Moroccan Meseta Mountains, the orogenic belt of the Moroccan coastal...

stock masses (stocks) and in batholiths that are often associated with orogenic mountain ranges. Small dikes of granitic composition called aplites are...

It was formed as a result of extensional tectonics during the post-orogenic collapse of crust thickened during the Caledonian orogeny, towards the end...

previous Svecofennian orogeny), (1.75–1.5 Ga) Sveconorwegian orogeny – Orogenic belt in southwestern Sweden and southern Norway – Essentially reworking...

tectonic instability and erosion related to crustal thinning or post-orogenic collapse of the Variscan mountains. The end of the Timezgadiouine Formation...

the largest structures formed during the extensional late orogenic to post-orogenic collapse of the Caledonian mountain belt. This zone of thickened crust...

crustal blocks that left a belt of uplifted mountains – the Central (China) Orogenic Belt (COB) – that crosses China approximately southwest to northeast, passing...