Definition of epeirogeny in English:

noun

• The regional uplift of an extensive area of the earth's crust.

  Example sentences

  • ‘Reconstructing the tectonic history of the western UK basins is hampered by the difficulty in recognizing and discriminating the superimposed effects of epeirogeny and inversion.’
  • ‘This would allow discrimination of the effects of erosion owing to footwall uplift from those owing to inversion and/or epeirogeny.’