mountain belt

They were taken to the adjacent rocky mountain belt and shot.

These ridges are similar in appearance to folded mountain belts on Earth.

Volcanoes are present in almost any mountain belt, but this does not make it a volcanic arc.

Often there are isolated, but impressively huge volcanoes in a mountain belt.

On Earth, such linear mountain belts are associated with the dominant geological force known as plate tectonics.

A foreland basin is a depression that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt.

For the simplified picture shown the depth of the mountain belt roots (b) are:

Significant erosion does occur throughout the mountain belt, scientists say, but not enough to counteract the incredible uplift.

His research used earthquakes to study the processes that produce the major surface features of the continents, such as mountain belts and basins.

The second category is closely related to oceanic trenches and their associated island arcs or mountain belts.

Mountain belts, both ancient and modern, are really no more than a chaotic pile of broken and sheared rock.

A mountain range or mountain belt is a geographic area containing numerous geologically related mountains.

(Not all mountain belts are formed this way.)

Mountain belts are uplifted due to geologic processes.

Such mountain belts develop when the oceanic lithosphere originally lying between two continents is eventually consumed.

Old mountain belts on separate continents line up when the continents are fit together along their coastlines.

"The lesson we learned about multiple events forming the Gamburtsevs may inform studies of the history of other mountain belts."

It forms the southern part of a mountain belt that continues northward in the Changbai Mountains.

Foreland basins are filled with sediments which erode from the adjacent mountain belt.

Faulting and folding of the four intervening rock zones resulted in a (now eroded) mountain belt.

Such a long period of rifting leads to uplift due to prolonged lateral heat conduction in the mountain belt.

It occurs as a result of movement on fault systems that bound the Tien Shan mountain belt.

Essentially, they represent a specific geographic-topographic situation in which a mountain belt is partly submerged in ocean.

The true "grain" of continents consists of the mountain belts and old, deep-lying rock strata.

Island arcs are tectonically created arc-shaped mountain belts that are partly below sea level.