Vành đai Alp
Also known as Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt
seismic and orogenic belt that includes an array of mountain ranges extending for more than 15'000 km along the southern margin of Eurasia
Key facts
- Peak
- Mount Everest
- Elevation
- 8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft)
- Length
- 15,000 km (9,300 mi) E–W in the west, N–S in the east
- Etymology
- Derived from Alps
- Mesozoic oceanic platform
- Southern Eurasia, northern Africa, central Asian subcontinent, southeast Asia
- Formed by
- compressive forces at aligned convergent plate boundaries
- Orogenies
- Alpine (in west), Himalayan (in east)
- Mountain type
- Folded mountain ranges
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 8848
- Image
- Alpiner Gebirgsgürtel.png