So I will start with a criticism of the quote from Ollier and Pain with whom I have more general issues than the postorogenic part Phrase by phrase that I disagree with Only much later was it realized that the two processes deformation and the creation of topography were mostly not closely related either in origin or in time Very wrong Deformation causes topography and the generation of topography is synchronous with deformation I will email you a copy of Dahlen and Suppe 1988 which shows that this is the case send me a message so I have your address and can attach a PDF They tackle the large scale deformation of sedimentary rocks via folding and thrusting during orogenesis fold belt mountainous areas fold belt isn t used professionally AFAIK to refer to a collisional mountain building event A minor thing though Only in the very youngest late Cenozoic mountains is there any evident causal relation between rock structure and surface landscape and the following sentence If I were British I would call this utter twaddle As I mentioned above there is no way for many of the exposed structures to get to the surface without large amounts of rock uplift and erosion And as a matter of fact the trajectory of different units of rock through an orogen is in part determined by patterns of surface erosion To keep it simple and send you one paper you ll find this in and at the end of the paper by Dahlen and Suppe 1988