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Alenkinab [10]
2 years ago
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What is the process of mountain building called?

Biology
2 answers:
adelina 88 [10]2 years ago
8 0
Orogeny, or mountain building, is the result of collision between two landmasses. This may occur via collision of continental crust (continent-continent collision) or when oceanic and continental crust collide (ocean-continent collision).
seraphim [82]2 years ago
5 0
The process of mountain building is called Orogeny.
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