Hellenides

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The Hellenides are a complex mountain system in Greece and the surrounding region, formed by the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates and characterized by intense folding, faulting, and seismic activity.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Hellenides canonical 2
External Hellenides 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf mountain system
orogenic belt
associatedWith Aegean microplate
linked to: Aegean Sea Plate

Hellenic Arc
Hellenic Trench
characterizedBy high seismic activity
intense faulting
intense folding
contains External Hellenides
linked to: Hellenides

Internal Hellenides
Ionian Zone
Pelagonian Zone
Pindus Mountains
Rhodope Massif
linked to: Rhodope Mountains
country Greece
deformationStyle compressional
extensional back-arc tectonics
extendsInto Aegean region
linked to: Aegean coast

Albania
western Turkey
formedBy collision of African Plate and Eurasian Plate
geologicalAge Cenozoic
Mesozoic
linked to: Mesozoic Era
hasActivity ongoing crustal deformation
hasFeature fold-and-thrust belts
metamorphic core complexes
thrust faults
highestPeakRegion Pindus range
linked to: Pindus Mountains
influences Aegean Sea morphology
seismic hazard in Greece
topography of Greece
lithology flysch
limestone
ophiolites
locatedIn Balkan Peninsula
linked to: Balkans
locatedOn Eurasian Plate
orogeny Alpine orogeny
partOf Alpine orogenic system
process subduction of African Plate beneath Eurasian Plate
relatedTo Aegean extensional tectonics
Mediterranean Ridge
researchField seismology
structural geology
tectonics
tectonicSetting convergent plate boundary

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hellenides contains External Hellenides
linked to: Hellenides
Adriatic Plate associatedWith Hellenides