orocline

Meaning

Noun

A mountain belt whose process of deformation is visible.
Any mountain belt with significant curvature.

Origin

Coined by Carey in 1955. ("The orocline concept in geotectonics", Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 89: 255-288)

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