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comparative more orogenic, superlative most orogenic
(geology) Concerned with orogeny; pertaining to the creation of mountains. quotations
For Suess, summing up folding and thrusting in a dozen mountain chains, orogenic events happened when the earth shrugged violently and pulled itself together.
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 116