continents". Carey showed that in a dozen cases where such bends were undone the results were substantially identical with continental reconstructions deduced by other means. Recognition of oroclinal bending provided strong support to the subsequent theory of plate tectonics.

Examples

*The Bolivian Orocline is a seaward concave bending in the coast of South America and the Andes mountains at about 18° S. At this point

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