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

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Walter Herman Bucher
American geologist
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
James Hall
American geologist
Pallas, engraved portrait
Peter Simon Pallas
German naturalist
Henry Darwin Rogers
American geologist
Marcel-Alexandre Bertrand
French geologist
Albert Heim
Swiss geologist