orogen

[ awr-uh-jen, -juhn, ohr- ]

nounGeology.
  1. an extensive belt of rocks deformed by orogeny, associated in places with plutonic and metamorphic rocks.

Origin of orogen

1
<German (1921); see oro-1, -gen

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