Computer Science
Scientific paper
Apr 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990esrv...27....1c&link_type=abstract
Earth Science Reviews, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, p. 1-201.
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Orogeny, the process by which the earth's prominent mountain ranges are constructed, has been a central topic of interest in the earth sciences since at least the end of the 18th century. The recognition that strains and displacements of very considerable magnitude occur along all of the three dimensions within an orogenic belt during its evolution has grown gradually during the last two centuries. Emphasis on primary vertical movements dominated the ideas on the nature of orogeny during the first half of the 19th century, whereas compression and consequent uplift across mountain belts were believed to be the main cause for their origin during the subsequent one hundred years or so that were spent under the dominance of the fixist contraction theory. Mobilist tectonicians realised that continental drift in places also required motion along the trend of orogenic belts, but this view did not gain general acceptance. Recognition of significant strike-slip motion parallel or subparallel with mountain ranges evolved independently and mostly within the fixist camp. By the 1960's presence of important motions both along and across mountain belts had become common knowledge, but no theoretical basis existed to account for them all.
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