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Epeirogenic movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Epeirogenic or continent forming movements, act along the radius of the earth. They are also called radial movements. Their direction maybe towards(subsidence) or away(uplift) from the centre of the ...
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Definition of epeirogenic in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of epeirogenic. Pronunciation of epeirogenic. Translations of epeirogenic. epeirogenic synonyms, epeirogenic antonyms. Information about epeirogenic in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... (redirected from epeirogenic)
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the vertical movement or tilting of the earth’s crust, affecting broad expanses of continents. — epeirogenic, epeirogenetic, adj. ... See also: Geology ... All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only.
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Most investigations of such epeirogenic movements have been concerned with subsidence, partly because of the economic importance of the resulting sedimentary basins, and partly because of the existence of a simple model for the process1 which can account for the development of several basins in some detail2−4.
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Definition of epeirogenic from Webster's New World College Dictionary. Meaning of epeirogenic. Pronunciation of epeirogenic. Definition of the word epeirogenic. Origin of the word epeirogenic. ... Dictionary Home » Webster's New World College Dictionary » epeirogenic...
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continental landform (geology), Climatically dominated epeirogenic realms, Britannica Online Encyclopedia, The epeirogenic portions of continents (i.e., those that have escaped orogenesis in the past 500,000,000 years) experience denudation in a situation in which the slope factor, if at all tectonic in origin, is regional ...
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The epeirogenic response will differ according to the thickness and constitution of different blocks of crust, offering a much-needed mechanism for differential uplift that doesn't rely on thrusting.
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We propose that the epeirogenic uplift of northern Central America is the buoyant upper-plate response to the influx of mantle asthenosphere following the break-off and sinking of the slab.
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1 Department of Geology, ... Marine fossils of Pleistocene age are known to occur in beach ridges near the border of northern Florida and southern Georgia at elevations of between 42 and 49 m above mean sea level. No evidence exists for a ... Florida, therefore, must have been uplifted epeirogenically during the Pleistocene.
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