Topic summary
Geologic uplift
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Orogeny.
See also
- Biogeography – Study of distribution of species
- Epeirogenic movement – Upheavals or depressions of land exhibiting long wavelengths and little folding
- Fault mechanics – Field of study that investigates the behavior of geologic faults
- Fold mountains – Mountains formed by compressive crumpling of the layers of rock
- Guyot – Flat-topped underwater mountain
- List of orogenies – Known mountain building events of the Earth's history
- Mantle convection – Gradual movement of the planet's mantle
- Tectonic uplift – Geologic uplift of Earth's surface that is attributed to plate tectonics