Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Gebirgshebung
English translation:
orogenesis (mountain-building)
Added to glossary by
Rowan Morrell
Mar 19, 2007 12:04
17 yrs ago
German term
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Gebirgshebung
German to English
Science
Geology
Historical Trail Audio
"Durch die ***Gebirgshebung***, Verschiebungen und Erosion treten tektonisch tiefe Gebirgsteile an die Oberfläche. Wir sehen dabei interessanterweise ältere Gesteinsablagerungen wie Gneis über jüngeren wie den Gesteinen der Oberen Schieferhülle."
Talking about an Austrian Alpine region's geological features for an historical trail audio. I can't find a translation for "Gebirgshebung", and am not sure what it means exactly. Mountain elevation, perhaps? TIA for your assistance.
Talking about an Austrian Alpine region's geological features for an historical trail audio. I can't find a translation for "Gebirgshebung", and am not sure what it means exactly. Mountain elevation, perhaps? TIA for your assistance.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +1 | Orogenesis (mountain-building) |
Alan Johnson
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| 3 | mountain folding |
gfish
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Proposed translations
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Orogenesis (mountain-building)
Is the scientific term, but you may want to use mountain-building.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: ""Mountain-building" gets a lot more hits than "mountain folding", and seems semantically closer to "orogenesis", so I'll use that. Many thanks Alan, but thanks also to Ingeborg for a most useful peer grade comment and gfish for a plausible and well-referenced suggestion. Appreciate everyone's help."
3 hrs
mountain folding
Many mountain ranges are the result of folding, which is where two tectonic plates push against each other causing the land surface to rise.
http://www.media.pearson.com.au/schools/cw/au_sch_stacey_atl...
Only in the Urals, the Caucasus, the Timan Mountains, the region of the Donets coalfield and Kielce Hills is there any sign of the great folding from which nearly the whole of the rest of Europe has suffered at one time or another . ..
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/RON_SAC/RUSSIA_Rossiya_.html
Through pronounced mountain folding, coal seams found at certain depths experienced extensive fragmentation into individual fields.
http://www.planetware.com/wales-southern/south-wales-the-val...
Mountain-folding characterized the deformations
that took place before that time, whereas warping and block faulting, without mountain-folding, characterized subsequent epochs.
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/4484/1/...
http://www.media.pearson.com.au/schools/cw/au_sch_stacey_atl...
Only in the Urals, the Caucasus, the Timan Mountains, the region of the Donets coalfield and Kielce Hills is there any sign of the great folding from which nearly the whole of the rest of Europe has suffered at one time or another . ..
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/RON_SAC/RUSSIA_Rossiya_.html
Through pronounced mountain folding, coal seams found at certain depths experienced extensive fragmentation into individual fields.
http://www.planetware.com/wales-southern/south-wales-the-val...
Mountain-folding characterized the deformations
that took place before that time, whereas warping and block faulting, without mountain-folding, characterized subsequent epochs.
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/4484/1/...
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