Orogeny

The theory of plate tectonics was defined in a series of papers between 1965 and 1967.

The collision of India and Asia during the Himalayan orogeny incorporated this continental shelf into the Himalayan Mountains.

The modern Appalachians and their relatives themselves were created by a series of three distinct orogenies beginning approximately 480 million years ago.

The geology of the archipelago is influenced by the effects of the Andean orogeny and the repeated Pleistocene glaciations.

the continent-continent collision being a part of the Indosinian Orogeny

Balkhash lies in the deepest part of the vast Balkhash-Alakol depression, which was formed by a sloping trough between mountains of the Alpine orogeny and the older Kazakhstan Block during the Neogene and Quaternary.

The formation is a result of the large, concave, pre-Andean depression of the Earth's crust, related to the Andean orogeny of the Tertiary.

The formation of the Canadian Prairies started with the uplift of the Rocky Mountains near Alberta.

The intense pressure and uplifting of the Earth's crust first affected the eastern part and moved progressively to the entire chain, culminating in the Eocene Epoch.

Puncak Jaya is the highest point on the Central Range, which was created in the late Miocene Melanesian orogeny, caused by an oblique collision between the Australian and Pacific plates

The Rockies formed 55 million to 80 million years ago during the Laramide orogeny, in which a number of plates began sliding underneath the North American plate.

They formed during the Uralian orogeny due to the collision of the eastern edge of the supercontinent Laurasia with the young and rheologically weak continent of Kazakhstania, which now underlies much of Kazakhstan and West Siberia west of the Irtysh, and intervening island arcs.

It forms part of the Himalayan orogenic belt, resulting from the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates during the Cenozoic era.