List of orogenies

African orogenies

• Antarctic orogenies

• Asian orogenies

• The Aravalli-Delhi Orogen
• The Altaid Orogeny
• The Cimmerian and Cathaysian orogenies
• *Active through Triassic and Jurassic Periods along south and southeast Asia.
• Persia–Tibet–Burma orogeny, caused by the continuing collision of the Arabian and Indian Plates with the Eurasian Plate, encompassing:
• * The Himalayan orogeny, forming the Himalaya Mountains, as a result of the ongoing collision of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate.
• The Dabie-Sulu orogeny
• Formation of the Ural Mountains, Eurasia, during the Permian Period.

  European orogenies

• Formation of an extensive area of tonalitic-trondhjemitic crust in Fennoscandia, from 3.1 Ga to 2.9 Ga
• Formation of two different types of terrain compatible with plate tectonic concepts. One is a belt of high-grade gneisses formed in a regime of strong mobility, while the other is a region of granitoid intrusions and greenstone belts surrounded by the remnants of a Saamian substratum, from 2.9 Ga to 2.6 Ga.
• , from 2.0 Ga to 1.75 Ga.
• Formation of tonalitic-granodioritic plutonic rocks and calc-alkaline volcanites from 1.75 Ga to 1.5 Ga.
• Essentially reworking of previously formed crust, from 1.25 Ga to 900 Ma.
• affecting the northern Baltic Shield during the Neoproterozoic Era, from 620 Ma to 550 Ma.
• on the north coast of Armorica in the Ediacaran/Cambrian from 660 Ma to 540 Ma.
• Deformation of the western Scandinavian Peninsula, Britain and Ireland in the Ordovician Grampian phase and the Silurian Scandian phase.
• , during the Permian Period.
• Deformation in western Iberia, SW Ireland, SW England, central and western France, southern Germany and Czech Republic during the Devonian and Carboniferous Periods.
• , encompassing:
• * the Formation of the Alps during the Eocene through Miocene Periods.
• * building the Carpathian Mountains of eastern Europe during the Jurassic-Cretaceous to Miocene Period.
• * in Greece and the Aegean area during Eocene through Miocene Periods.

• North American orogenies

• , Superior province, South Dakota to Lake Huron, Late Archean 2700-2500 Ma.
• , Along western edge of Canadian shield, 2100-1900 Ma.
• , Extends from Hudson Bay west into Saskatchewan then south through the western Dakotas and Nebraska. Result of the collision of the Superior craton with the Hearne craton and the Wyoming craton during the Proterozoic. Lasted from 2000-1800 Ma.
• , 1910–1770 Ma.
• , late Paleoproterozoic collision at the southern margin of the North Atlantic Craton, 1850–1720 Ma
• Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, U. S. A. and southern Ontario, Canada, 1850-1840 Ma.
• Proterozoic collision between the Hearne craton and the Wyoming craton in southwest Montana, 1770 Ma.
• Mojave province, south western USA
• , mid to south western USA, 1710-1700 Ma.
• , mid to south western USA, 1675-1650 Ma.
• , mid to south western USA, 1430-1300 Ma.
• Worldwide during the late Proterozoic, 1300-1000 Ma. Associated with the assembly of the supercontinent Rodinia. Formed folded mountains in Eastern North America from Newfoundland to North Carolina, 1100-1000 Ma.
• , including:
• *, formed from Cryogenian to Devonian
• * in the NE U.S. and Canada during the Ordovician Period.
• * in the Eastern U.S. during Silurian and Devonian Periods.
• , usually seen as the same as the Variscan orogeny in Europe.
• * Appalachian Mountains is a well studied orogenic belt resulting from a late Paleozoic collision between North America and Africa.
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• , Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma is an orogenic belt that dates from the late Paleozoic Era and is most likely a continuation of the Appalachian orogeny west across the Mississippi embayment - Reelfoot Rift zone.
• , Ancestral Sierra Nevada western United States. Late Devonian - early Mississippian.
• , Innuitian Mountains, Canadian Arctic, extending from Ellesmere Island to Melville Island, Mississippian 345 Ma.
• , Rocky Mountains, western North America, 270-240 Ma.
• , Developed along western North America during the Jurassic Period.
• , Rocky Mountains, western North America, 140-50 Ma.
• , Rocky Mountains, western North America, 40-70 Ma.
• , Transverse Ranges, western North America, Pleistocene to present day

  Oceania orogenies

Australian orogenies

• ,, Gawler Craton, South Australia
• ,, Glenburgh Terrane, Western Australia.
• ,, Gawler Craton, South Australia
• , Gawler Craton, South Australia
• , Gawler Craton, South Australia
• ,, North Yilgarn craton margin, Western Australia
• ,, Gascoyne Complex, Western Australia.
• ,, Gawler Craton, South Australia
• ,, MacArthur Basin, northern Australia
• ,, Western Australia
• , c. 1600 Ma, Mount Isa Block, Queensland
• , Olary Block, South Australia
• , Gascoyne Complex, Western Australia
• ,, Musgrave Block, Central Australia.
• ,, Gascoyne Complex, Western Australia.
• ,, Central Australia
• , South Australia and Victoria, Australia, Ordovician
• , c. 540 and 440 Ma., Victoria and New South Wales
• , northern continuation of the Lachlan Orogeny
• ,, Carboniferous, Victoria and New South Wales
• , in central Australia, Early Carboniferous
• , Permian to Triassic, Queensland and New South Wales

  New Zealand orogenies

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  South American orogenies

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• Guriense orogeny
• , Brasilia Belt
• *, Paraguai Belt
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• , Sierra de la Ventana
• , Chilean Coast Range 300-330 Ma.
• , Andes Mountains, 0-200 Ma.