Adelaidean orogeny
Adelaidean orogeny A late Proterozoic and Ordovician phase of mountain building, affecting what is now southern Australia, in which sedimentary rocks of the Adelaidean System were raised by severe thrusting and overfolding, first in the south and later along the northern margin of the system.
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