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Meaning of "epeirogeny" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EPEIROGENY

From Greek ēpeiros continent + -geny.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EPEIROGENY

epeirogeny  [ˌɛpaɪˈrɒdʒɪnɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EPEIROGENY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Epeirogeny is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EPEIROGENY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Epeirogenic movement

In geology, epeirogenic movement refers to upheavals or depressions of land exhibiting long wavelengths and little folding apart from broad undulations. The broad central parts of continents are called cratons, and are subject to epeirogeny. The movement may be one of subsidence toward, or of uplift from, the centre of the Earth. The movement is caused by a set of forces acting along an Earth radius, such as those contributing to isostasy and faulting in the lithosphere. Epeirogenic movement can be permanent or transient. Transient uplift can occur over a thermal anomaly due to convecting anomalously hot mantle, and disappears when convection wanes. Permanent uplift can occur when igneous material is injected into the crust, and circular or elliptical structural uplift over a large radius is one characteristic of a mantle plume. Epeirogenic movement has caused the southern Rocky Mountain region to be uplifted from 1300 to 2000 m since the Eocene. This followed and is distinct from the creation of the Rocky Mountains during the Laramide Orogeny during the Late Cretaceous–early Cenozoic.

Definition of epeirogeny in the English dictionary

The definition of epeirogeny in the dictionary is the formation and submergence of continents by broad relatively slow displacements of the earth's crust Also called: epirogeny.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EPEIROGENY


androgyny
ænˈdrɒdʒɪnɪ
anthropogeny
ˌænθrəˈpɒdʒɪnɪ
dynamogeny
ˌdaɪnəˈmɒdʒɪnɪ
embryogeny
ˌɛmbrɪˈɒdʒɪnɪ
epirogeny
ˌɛpaɪˈrɒdʒɪnɪ
ethnogeny
ɛθˈnɒdʒɪnɪ
gametogeny
ˌɡæmɪˈtɒdʒɪnɪ
homogeny
hɒˈmɒdʒɪnɪ
isogeny
aɪˈsɒdʒɪnɪ
metallogeny
ˌmetəˈlɒdʒɪnɪ
misogyny
mɪˈsɒdʒɪnɪ
orogeny
ɒˈrɒdʒɪnɪ
pathogeny
pəˈθɒdʒɪnɪ
petrogeny
pəˈtrɒdʒɪnɪ
phylogeny
faɪˈlɒdʒɪnɪ
progeny
ˈprɒdʒɪnɪ
proterogyny
ˌprəʊtəˈrɒdʒɪnɪ
spermatogeny
ˌspɜːməˈtɒdʒɪnɪ
sporogeny
spɔːˈrɒdʒɪnɪ
thaumatogeny
ˌθɔːməˈtɒdʒɪnɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EPEIROGENY

epedaphic
epeiric
epeirid
epeirogenesis
epeirogenetic
epeirogenic
epeirogenically
epencephala
epencephalic
epencephalon
ependyma
ependymal
epentheses
epenthesis
epenthetic
epeolatry
epergne
epexegeses
epexegesis
epexegetic

WORDS THAT END LIKE EPEIROGENY

autogeny
biogeny
cryogeny
cytogeny
endogeny
geomorphogeny
heterogeny
histogeny
hysterogeny
lysogeny
monogeny
nomogeny
odontogeny
ontogeny
osteogeny
photogeny
phytogeny
polygeny
teratogeny
xenogeny
zoogeny

Synonyms and antonyms of epeirogeny in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «epeirogeny» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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эпейрогения
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epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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Epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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Epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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एपेरोजेनी
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epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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Translator English - Polish

epeirogeny
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Translator English - Ukrainian

епейрогенія
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Translator English - Romanian

epeirogeny
30 millions of speakers
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epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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epeirogeny
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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EPEIROGENY»

The term «epeirogeny» is used very little and occupies the 192.980 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EPEIROGENY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about epeirogeny

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPEIROGENY»

Discover the use of epeirogeny in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to epeirogeny and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Active Tectonics:: Impact on Society
EPEIROGENY Sedimentary strata that overlie large areas of the stable interiors like the central United States and eastern Europe record a history of broad upwarping and downwarping relative to sea level (e.g., King, 1977). In some cases ...
Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, Geophysics Research Forum, Geophysics Study Committee, 1986
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The Geology of Stratigraphic Sequences
Dynamic. Topography. and. Epeirogeny. Johnson (1971) wasoneofthe firstto emphasize thelinks betweenSlosstype cycles oftransgressionregression and regional orogeny. Burgess (2008) provided an updated evaluation of this relationship ...
Andrew Miall, 2010
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The Origin of Mountains
views: 'The process of mountain formation is orogeny, the process of continent formation is epeirogeny, and the two collectively are diastrophism.' Probably nobody follows this usage any more. 'Epeirogeny' is still a valid term for the uplift of ...
Cliff Ollier, Colin Pain, 2004
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Crust of the Earth: A Symposium
Made in U. S. A. Orogeny and Epeirogeny Through Time* PHILIP B. KING Department of Geology, University of California, Los Angeles, California ABSTRACT Theories as to time relations of orogeny and epeirogeny are only as strong as the ...
Arie Poldervaart, 1955
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Sea-Level Change
Long-Term Eustasy and Epeirogeny in Continents PROCESSES AND FEEDBACKS 9 Could Possible Changes in Global Groundwater. 8 C. G. A. HARRISON University of Miami INTRODUCTION It is well known that over time intervals of ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Geophysics Study Committee, 1990
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Encyclopedia of Geomorphology
MARIO PANIZZA EPEIROGENY In his monograph on Lake Bonneville, Gilbert ( 1890: 340) formalized the definition of certain tectonic terms: 'Displacements of the Earth's crust which produce mountain ridges are called oro- genic...the process ...
Andrew Goudie, 2013
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Facies and Micro-organisms of the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and ...
Epeirogeny on Cretaceo- Tertiary boundary in Kita- kami and Abukuma massifs and Hokkaido •Wakayaman movement on Cretaceo-Tertiary boundary in the Outer Zone of Southwestern Japan a Eocene series •Fukuokan movement on ...
Shōshirō Hanzawa, 1961
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Pangea: Paleoclimate, Tectonics, and Sedimentation During ...
In his classic study of Lake Bonneville, G. K. Gilbert (1890) recognized two kinds of uplift: orogeny and epeirogeny. The term orogeny came into use before Gilbert, but he related it to deformation by which structures within fold-belt mountains ...
George O. Klein, 1994
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The Encyclopedia of the Solid Earth Sciences
epeirogeny/epeirogenesis where V is the speed in knots, 0t the heading and it the latitude. {PK} epeirogeny/epeirogenesis Very large-scale tectonic movements which result in uplift and subsidence of areas of the continental crust or oceanic ...
Philip Kearey, 2009
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Compaction of Coarse-Grained Sediments, I
convenient also to divide diastrophism into orogeny (mountain-making) and epeirogeny (continent-making).” Gilbert thus coined the terms orogenesis and epeirogenesis; the former relates to the episodic processes that operate along mobile ...
G.V. Chilingarian, K.H. Wolf, 1975

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EPEIROGENY»

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Gore Range geology: A 'trapdoor' story
... what caused that uplift," Streufert says, explaining that the entire western United States was affected by that event, known as an "epeirogeny. «Vail Daily News, Jun 08»

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