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Also Known As mountain formation • orogenesis • mountain building process • orogen

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Two diagrams illustrate continental collision. The top shows two continental crusts converging at a subduction zone, with oceanic crust and lithosphere beneath. The bottom shows the result: a new mountain range formed where the crusts collide, with the oceanic crust subducted below. Arrows indicate the direction of crust movement.
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Walter Herman Bucher
American geologist
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Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
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James Hall
American geologist
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Peter Simon Pallas
German naturalist
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Henry Darwin Rogers
American geologist
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Marcel-Alexandre Bertrand
French geologist
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Albert Heim
Swiss geologist