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Categories: Tectonics stubs, Volcanism, Geographic areas of seismological interest, Plate tectonics, Belt regions
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Alpide belt  Alpide  Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt  Alpine–Himalayan orogenic belt  Alps-Himalaya System
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The Alpide belt or Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt, or more recently and rarely the Tethyan orogenic belt, is a seismic and orogenic belt that includes an array of mountain ranges extending for more than 15,000 kilometres along the southern margin of Eurasia, stretching from Java and Sumatra, through the Indochinese Peninsula, the Himalayas and Transhimalayas, the mountains of Iran, Caucasus, Anatolia, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic. Wikipedia
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The Alpide belt or Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt, or more recently and rarely the Tethyan orogenic belt, is a seismic and orogenic belt that includes an array of mountain ranges extending for more than 15,000 kilometres along the southern margin of Eurasia, stretching from Java and Sumatra, through the Indochinese Peninsula, the Himalayas and Transhimalayas, the mountains of Iran, Caucasus, Anatolia, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic. Wikipedia
Seismic and orogenic belt that includes an array of mountain ranges extending for more than 15'000 km along the southern margin of Eurasia Wikidata