"orogenous" meaning in English

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          "text": "The gradual uplift of mountains is the most common form of orogenous activity.",
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          "ref": "1970, Proceedings of the United Nations Symposium on the Development and Utilisation of Geothermal Resources, vol. 2, part 2, page 1229:",
          "text": "Within the remaining young circumpacific orogenous belt there are mainly two regions of special interest with regard to geothermal conditions left for consideration...",
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          "ref": "1980, Nils-Axel Morner, editor, Earth Rheology, Isostasy, and Eustasy, John Wiley & Sons, page 428:",
          "text": "The Fergana intermountain depression falls into the orogenous class structures...\nBeing part of post-Paleozoic activation region it has gone through a number of orogenous epochs...",
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          "ref": "1993, L.P. Zonenshain Memorial Conference on Plate Tectonics: Programme and Abstracts, page 27:",
          "text": "[O]rogenous uplifts grow continuously...",
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          "ref": "1999, Jean Terschuren, “Action plan for Cypripedium calceolus in Europe”, in Nature and Environment, number 100, page 42:",
          "text": "Orogenous spruce, larch and arolla, mountain pine forests and plantations\nWestern Palaearcic orogenous spruce forests",
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