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- Epeirogenic_movement abstract "In geology, epeirogenic movement (from Greek epeiros, land, and genesis, birth) 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 (that is, without folding) over a large radius (tens to thousands of km) 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. The uplift is interpreted as due to lithospheric heating resulting from thinning and the intrusion of widespread middle Tertiary batholiths of relatively low density.In contrast to epeirogenic movement, orogenic movement is a more complicated deformation of the Earth's crust, associated with crustal thickening, notably associated with the convergence of tectonic plates. Such plate convergence forms orogenic belts that are characterized by "the folding and faulting of layers of rock, by the intrusion of magma, and by volcanism".".
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- Epeirogenic_movement subject Category:Geological_processes.
- Epeirogenic_movement type GeologicalProcess113486838.
- Epeirogenic_movement type GeologicalProcesses.
- Epeirogenic_movement type NaturalProcess113518963.
- Epeirogenic_movement type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Epeirogenic_movement type Process100029677.
- Epeirogenic_movement comment "In geology, epeirogenic movement (from Greek epeiros, land, and genesis, birth) 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.".
- Epeirogenic_movement label "Epeirogenic movement".
- Epeirogenic_movement label "Epirogenesi".
- Epeirogenic_movement label "Epirogénesis".
- Epeirogenic_movement label "Epirogênese".
- Epeirogenic_movement label "Ruchy lądotwórcze".
- Epeirogenic_movement label "Épirogenèse".
- Epeirogenic_movement label "حركة نشوء القارات".
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- Epeirogenic_movement sameAs Epirogenesi.
- Epeirogenic_movement sameAs Ruchy_lądotwórcze.
- Epeirogenic_movement sameAs Epirogênese.
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- Epeirogenic_movement sameAs Q2628268.
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