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- Alpine_orogeny abstract "The Alpine orogeny or Alpide orogeny is an orogenic phase in the Late Mesozoic (Eoalpine) and the current Cenozoic that has formed the mountain ranges of the Alpide belt. These mountains include (from west to east) the Atlas, the Rif, the Baetic Cordillera, the Cantabrian Mountains, the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Apennine Mountains, the Dinaric Alps, the Hellenides, the Carpathians, the Balkan Mountains, the Taurus,the Armenian Highlands, the Caucasus, the Alborz, the Zagros, the Hindu Kush, the Pamir, the Karakoram, and the Himalayas. Sometimes other names occur to describe the formation of separate mountain ranges: for example Carpathian orogeny for the Carpathians, Hellenic orogeny for the Hellenides or the Himalayan orogeny for the Himalayas.The Alpine orogeny has also led to the formation of more distant and smaller geological features such as the Weald–Artois Anticline in Southern England and Northern France, the remains of which can be seen in the chalk ridges of the North and South Downs in southern England. Its effects are particularly visible on the Isle of Wight, where the Chalk Group and overlying Eocene strata are folded to near-vertical, as seen in exposures at Alum Bay and Whitecliff Bay, and on the Dorset coast near Lulworth Cove.The Alpine orogeny is caused by the continents Africa and India and the small Cimmerian plate colliding (from the south) with Eurasia in the north. Convergent movements between the tectonic plates (the Indian plate and the African plate from the south, the Eurasian plate from the north, and many smaller plates and microplates) had already begun in the early Cretaceous, but the major phases of mountain building began in the Paleocene to Eocene. The process continues currently in some of the Alpide mountain ranges.The Alpine orogeny is considered one of the three major phases of orogeny in Europe that define the geology of that continent, along with the Caledonian orogeny that formed the Old Red Sandstone Continent when the continents Baltica and Laurentia collided in the early Paleozoic, and the Hercynian or Variscan orogeny that formed Pangaea when Gondwana and the Old Red Sandstone Continent collided in the middle to late Paleozoic.".
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- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Africa.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink African_Plate.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink African_plate.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Alborz.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Alpide_belt.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Alps.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Alum_Bay.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Apennine_Mountains.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Armenian_Highlands.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Atlas_Mountains.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Baetic_Cordillera.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Baetic_System.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Balkan_Mountains.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Baltica.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Caledonian_orogeny.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Cantabrian_Mountains.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Carpathian_Mountains.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Carpathian_orogeny.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Carpathians.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cenozoic_orogenies.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_the_Alps.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mesozoic_orogenies.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Category:Natural_history_of_Asia.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Caucasus_Mountains.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Cenozoic.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Chalk_Group.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Cimmerian_Plate.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Cimmerian_plate.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Continental_collision.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Convergent_boundary.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Dinaric_Alps.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Dorset.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Eocene.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Euramerica.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Eurasia.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Eurasian_Plate.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Eurasian_plate.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Geology_of_the_Alps.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Geology_of_the_Himalaya.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Gondwana.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Hellenides.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Himalayas.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Hindu_Kush.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink India.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Indian_Plate.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Indian_plate.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Isle_of_Wight.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Karakoram.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Laurentia.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Lulworth_Cove.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Mesozoic.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink North_Downs.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Old_Red_Sandstone_Continent.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Orogeny.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Paleocene.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Paleozoic.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Pamir_Mountains.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Pangaea.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Pindus.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Plate_tectonics.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Pyrenees.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Rif.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink South_Downs.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Taurus_Mountains.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Variscan_orogeny.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Weald–Artois_Anticline.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Whitecliff_Bay.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink Zagros_Mountains.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLink File:Tectonic_map_Mediterranean_EN.svg.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "Alpine chain mountains".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "Alpine earth movements".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "Alpine folding movements".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "Alpine mountain chains".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "Alpine orogenesis".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "Alpine orogenic belt".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "Alpine orogenic".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "Alpine orogeny".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "Alpine".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "Alpine-type".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "Alps".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "Hellenide orogeny".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "alpidic mountain building".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "alpine orogeny".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "alpine".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "formation of the Alps".
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageWikiLinkText "formation of the surrounding mountain chains".
- Alpine_orogeny hasPhotoCollection Alpine_orogeny.
- Alpine_orogeny wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Alpine_orogeny subject Category:Cenozoic_orogenies.
- Alpine_orogeny subject Category:Geology_of_the_Alps.
- Alpine_orogeny subject Category:Mesozoic_orogenies.
- Alpine_orogeny subject Category:Natural_history_of_Asia.
- Alpine_orogeny hypernym Phase.