An orocline — from the Greek words for "mountain" and "to bend" — is a bend or curvature of an orogenic (mountain building) belt imposed after it was formed.[1] 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 this provided "the key to understanding the evolution of the continents".[2] Carey showed that in a dozen cases where such bends were undone the results were substantially identical with continental reconstructions deduced by other means.[3] Recognition of oroclinal bending provided strong support to the subsequent theory of plate tectonics.
^Carey 1955, p. 257. Note that the initial formation does not have to be straight.
An orocline — from the Greek words for "mountain" and "to bend" — is a bend or curvature of an orogenic (mountain building) belt imposed after it was formed...
within the range. The Andean orogen has a series of bends or oroclines. The Bolivian Orocline is a seaward-concave bending in the coast of South America...
"Tuva-Mongol Orocline", is located in the eastern portion of the belt, which is in Inner Mongolia, Mongolia, and southern Russia. The Kazakhstan orocline, which...
Bolivian Orocline to the varying ages of the subducted Nazca Plate with the older parts of the plate subducting at the centre of the orocline. As Andrés...
the formation of the high parts of the Central Andes and the Bolivian orocline did not occur until 45 Mya. It has been suggested that the mountains were...
Laurussia and Siberia led the formerly elongate microcontinent to bend into an orocline. During the Carboniferous, the Tarim craton lay along the northwestern...
(link) Martínez Catalán, José R. (2012-07-01). "The Central Iberian arc, an orocline centered in the Iberian Massif and some implications for the Variscan belt"...
Canadian Shield: A case study for Paleoproterozoic lower crust exhumation, orocline development, and lateral extrusion". Precambrian Research. 355: 106083...
likely corresponding to ancient continent-wide faults. From the Bolivian Orocline (20° S, also known as Arica Deflection or Arica Elbow) north these zones...
part of the larger Inari orocline. This orocline include also the Tana and Karasjok belts. Two ideas on origin of the orocline have been proposed; that...
that it, too, formed part of core Gondwana before its detachment as an orocline in the Variscan orogeny close to the Carboniferous–Permian boundary. South-east...
the Solitary Islands: constraints on the geometry of the Coffs Harbour orocline". New England Orogen, eastern Australia. pp. 265–274. ISBN 1-86389-030-0...
to make the current crescent shape. This kind of bending is called an orocline. Two theories explain the Permian basin formation due to crustal extension...
the Solitary Islands: constraints on the geometry of the Coffs Harbour orocline". New England Orogen, eastern Australia. pp. 265–274. ISBN 1-86389-030-0...
forgotten until it was rediscovered in 2004 and identified as part of the orocline now called the Central Iberian arc. Staub owned a car, possessed private...
Plates. The end-regions of the rupture zone coincided with the Andean oroclines of Maipo (33° S) and Arauco (37° S). This has been interpreted as suggesting...
2010). "Geochemical variations in igneous rocks of the Central Andean orocline (13 S to 18 S): Tracing crustal thickening and magma generation through...
base metals. The Bolivian tin belt follows the same bend as the Bolivian orocline. The mineralizations of the belt were formed episodically beginning in...
the Solitary Islands: constraints on the geometry of the Coffs Harbour orocline". New England Orogen, eastern Australia. pp. 265–274. ISBN 1-86389-030-0...
orthogonal change in tectonic compressive stress. This resulted in various oroclines around the Gulf of Bothnia. Prior to the Svecobaltic orogeny proper there...
ISBN 978-1-4020-3297-4. Montes, Camilo; et al. (2012). "Arc‐continent collision and orocline formation: Closing of the Central American seaway" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical...
publishing the results of the Geologic Survey. Carey introduced terms such as orocline and sphenochasm and the concept of the hotspot. The University of Tasmania...
T.; Acton, S. (24 April 2003), "The Eocene Southern Vancouver Island Orocline — a response to seamount accretion and the cause of fold-and-thrust belt...
2009). "Geochemical variations in igneous rocks of the Central Andean orocline (13 S to 18 S): Tracing crustal thickening and magma generation through...
Schwartz, Susan Y.; Voo, Rob Van der (1983). "Paleomagnetic evaluation of the Orocline Hypothesis in the central and southern Appalachians". Geophysical Research...
December 2016. Johnston, S. T. (2004). "The New Caledonia–D'Entrecasteaux orocline and its role in clockwise rotation of the Vanuatu–New Hebrides Arc and...
T.; Acton, S. (24 April 2003), "The Eocene Southern Vancouver Island Orocline — a response to seamount accretion and the cause of fold-and-thrust belt...
2009). "Geochemical variations in igneous rocks of the Central Andean orocline (13 S to 18 S): Tracing crustal thickening and magma generation through...
mid latitudes of western South America, in an area called the Bolivian Orocline. A paleobiogeographical reconstruction indicate that this region is the...
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