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A 3 page comparison of these two mountain belts. Plate tectonics and the geological process of orogony are detailed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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gone into shaping the surface of the earth. Their topography and their geological makeup reflects age and origin. Two particularly interesting mountain belts are the Appalachian Mountains of
the Eastern United States and the Caledonian mountain belt of the Scottish Highlands. Both formed through the geological process of orogony. Both
the Caledonians and the Appalachians are so-called "folded mountains". They are characterized by interesting topographic and geologic features which can be attributed to the process of orogony. These
features are the result of a number of geologic processes, in fact, including erosion and deposition of sediments from wind water and a phenomena referred to as plate tectonics.
It is plate tectonics which are most responsible for cordillera orogony. Plate tectonics is the shifting and rearrangements of the very plates which make up the earths surface.
When these plates meet one another in opposing forces the result is folding and mountain formation. Mountains are an ever changing phenomenon
because the earths continents are in constant motion, slowly moving across the earths surface and constantly changing their spatial relationship to one another and to the north and south poles.
The Caledonians and the Appalachians alike , however, are obviously more than the product of simple continental drift. Plate tectonics has played a definitive role in their formation.
The processes which go into cordillera orogeny such as plate tectonics are evidenced by a number of observtions. One observation is paleomagnetism,
studies in which were initiated in the early 1950s and which demonstrated a relationship between the magnetism of various geologic deposits. Rock formations when formed take on the magnetic
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