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  1. Orogeny

is a mountain building process while epeirogeny

is a continent building process.2. In orogeny

crust is severely deformed into into folds while in epeirogeny

there may be simple deformation.

3. In orogeny

the rock masses move in tangential direction to the earth's surface while in epeirogeny

the rock masses move in radial or vertical direction to the earth's surface.

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