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German: Gebirgshebung

English translation: orogenesis (mountain-building)



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German term or phrase:Gebirgshebung
English translation:orogenesis (mountain-building)
Entered by:Rowan Morrell
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Science - Geology / Historical Trail Audio
German term or phrase: Gebirgshebung
"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.
Rowan Morrell
New Zealand
Orogenesis (mountain-building)
Explanation:
Is the scientific term, but you may want to use mountain-building.
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Alan Johnson
Germany
Note from asker to answerer
"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.
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4 +1Orogenesis (mountain-building)
Alan Johnson
3mountain foldingAngelika Joast


  

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Orogenesis (mountain-building)

Explanation:
Is the scientific term, but you may want to use mountain-building.


    Reference: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/...
Alan Johnson
Germany
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Note from asker to answerer
"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.

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agree Ingeborg Gowans: for this kind of text, I would definitely prefer mountain-building
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mountain folding

Explanation:
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/...

Angelika Joast
United States
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