Alpide belt
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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 ... Wikipedia
Formed by: compressive forces at aligned convergent plate boundaries
Length: 15,000 km (9,300 mi) E–W in the west, N–S in the east
Mesozoic oceanic platform: Southern Eurasia, northern Africa, central Asian subcontinent, southeast Asia
Orogeny: Alpine (in west), Himalayan (in east)
Peak: Mount Everest