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The process of formation of the mountains is called Orogenesis.
In other more everyday words, we could say that orogenesis is the formation or rejuvenation of mountains and ranges as a consequence of the compressive deformation of large regions of the lithosphere continental.

After a thickening of the Earth crust The materials will begin to undergo various tectonic deformations such as folding, shifting of mantles, among others. This process always occurs at converging plate edges.

The thermal orogenesis It occurs when one plate sinks below another and is called thermal due to the volcanic phenomena that begin to happen as a consequence of the friction between the two plates, while the two modalities that are recognized within this are the island arches and fringe mountain ranges.

And on his side, the mechanical orogenesis will occur when the movement convergent type of two plates drags one continental segment against another. It is characterized mainly because the predominant movements are horizontal, of mechanical origin, with little

participation of volcanic-type processes. The orogenesis that corresponds to this mechanical type has been the one that has generated the most important relief that planet earth has, made up of the Himalayas and the Plateau from Tibet.

The weather and the ecology of the earth have suffered enough the details of orogenesis almost in the same proportion than by the redistribution of the continental masses. When large reliefs are erected, atmospheric circulation, winds, humidity and erosion are inevitably modified, such as weathering, they become more intense.

Also, the set of movements that occurred at a certain time and that gave rise to mountain systems is called orogenesis.

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