How to pronounce“orog”in English

Orographic precipitation is defined as precipitation caused by the lifting of air by a mountain.

orogenies are major chunks of continent coming up and major mountain ranges getting built.

orography the way they uh the way they trade lines back and forth very fluid

call orographic clouds. Clouds are that are mountain generated. And that kind of

called orogenesis, which literally means “the birth of mountains.” And really, orogenesis is just more ways the rock cycle interacts with the tectonic cycle.

So orographic precipitation is really a big control.

An orogeny is just what geologists call a mountain building event.