orogenous

From orogeny +‎ -ous.

orogenous (comparative more orogenous, superlative most orogenous)

1. (geology, often humorous, by analogy to erogenous) Of or relating to mountain-building; orogenic.

   The gradual uplift of mountains is the most common form of orogenous activity.

   • 1970, Proceedings of the United Nations Symposium on the Development and Utilisation of Geothermal Resources, vol. 2, part 2, page 1229:

     Within the remaining young circumpacific orogenous belt there are mainly two regions of special interest with regard to geothermal conditions left for consideration...

   • 1980, Earth Rheology, Isostasy, and Eustasy, Nils-Axel Morner (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, page 428:

     The Fergana intermountain depression falls into the orogenous class structures...

     Being part of post-Paleozoic activation region it has gone through a number of orogenous epochs...

   • 1993 L.P. Zonenshain Memorial Conference on Plate Tectonics: Programme and Abstracts, page 27:

     [O]rogenous uplifts grow continuously...

   • 1999 Jean Terschuren, "Action plan for Cypripedium calceolus in Europe", in Nature and Environment No. 100, page 42:

     Orogenous spruce, larch and arolla, mountain pine forests and plantations

     Western Palaearcic orogenous spruce forests

• orogenous zone