An orocline — from the Greek words for `mountain` and `to bend` — is a bend or curvature of an orogeneic (mountain building) belt imposed after it was formed. The term was introduced by S. Warren Carey in 1955 in a paper setting forth how complex shapes of various orogenic belts could be explained by actual bending, and that understanding ...
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A bend about a vertical axis formed by buckling of an originally linear orogen. An orogenic belt with an imposed curvature or sharp bend.
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