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Geosynclinal Orogen
Theory of Kober – Book
Der Bauder Erde

Geosyncline

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• OROGEN
• KRATOGEN
– Canadian Shield
– Baltic Shield
– Siberian Shield
– Peninsular India
– Chinese Massif
– Brazilian Mass
– African Shield
– Australian
– Antarctic Rigid Blocks

• Morpho-Tectonic Units (Mesozoic Period)

–India & Australia
–Africa & part of Atlantic Ocean & Indian Ocean
–Eurasia
–North Pacific Continent
–South Pacific Continent
–North America
–South America
–Antarctica

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6 Mountain- Building Periods

• 3 in Precambrian Period
• Palaeozoic Era
–Caledonian orogenesis (by Silurian Period)
–Variscan orogeny (Permo-Carboniferous
Period)
• Alpine orogeny in the Tertiary Epoch

Processes Involved
•Lithogenesis
•Orogenesis
•Gliptogenesis

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Processes Involved

Randketten

Zwischengebirge

Tethys
• Pyrenees, Beltic Cordillera, the Provence
ranges, the Carpathians, the Alps proper, the
Balkan & Caucasus mountains

• Atlas, the Apennines, the Dinarides, the

Hellenides & Taurides

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Examples
• Hungarian MM b/w Carpathians & Dinaric Alps
• Mediterranean Sea MM b/w Pyrenees-Provence
Ranges & Atlas
• Anatolian plateau b/w Pontic & Taurus
• Iranian plateau b/w Zagros & Elburz
• Caribbean Sea b/w Middle America & West Indies
• Basin Range b/w Wasatch ranges & Sierra Nevada

CRITICS
• Forces of contraction not sufficient for mountain
building
• Suess – One side of geosyncline move
(backland), other is stable (foreland)
• Cannot explain N-S mountains like Rockies and
Andes

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Plate Tectonic
Theory

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Aleutian islands (Japan) Andes and Cascades –

– Mostly Heat Driven Mostly Heat Driven

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Overriding block is a hinterland

Overridden block the foreland.

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Wilson Cycle
• IAPETUS ocean b/w
England & Scotland in
Lower Paleozoic
• Closed in the Caledonian,
later opening of the
Atlantic, almost in the
same place.

Wilson Cycle
Rifting of
continents by
mantle release

Continental Continental
collision & final drift, seafloor
closure of ocean spreading &
basin formation of
ocean basins
Progressive
closure of ocean
basins by
subduction of
ocean
lithosphere

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