The Mediterranean (Alpine-Himalayan) folded (geosynclinal) belt is a folded belt that crosses Northwest Africa and Eurasia in the latitudinal direction from the Atlantic Ocean to the South China Sea , separating the southern group of ancient platforms , which made up the supercontinent Gondwan to the middle of the Jurassic the group that previously formed the continent of Laurasia and the Siberian platform . In the east, the Mediterranean fold belt articulates with the western branch of the Pacific geosynclinal belt .
The Mediterranean belt covers the southern regions of Europe and the Mediterranean , Maghrib (North-West Africa), Asia Minor , the Caucasus , the Persian mountain systems, the Pamirs , the Himalayas , Tibet , Indochina and the Indonesian Islands . In the middle and central part of Asia, it is almost combined with the Ural-Mongolian geosynclinal system , and in the west it is close to the North Atlantic system .
The belt has been forming for a long time, covering the period from Precambrian to the present day .
The Mediterranean geosynclinal belt includes 2 folded regions (mesozoids and alpides), which are divided into systems [1] :
- Mesozoids -
- Indosinan (Tibeto-Malay) ;
- West Turkmen (Nebitdag) ;
- Alps -
- Caucasian ;
- Crimean ;
- Balkan ;
- Central European ;
- Apennine ;
- North Maghrib ;
- Iran-Oman ;
- Kopetdago-Elburs ;
- Balochistan
- Afghan-Tajik ;
- Pamir ;
- Himalayan ;
- Irrawaddy ;
- West Malay
See also
- Pleated belt
Notes
- β Zeissler V.M., Karaulov V.B., Uspenskaya E.A., Chernova E.S. Fundamentals of regional geology of the USSR. - M: Nedra, 1984. - 358 p.