A linear range of mountains.

A linear or arcuate region that has been subjected to folding and other deformation during an orogenic cycle. Orogenic belts are mobile belts during their formative stages, and most of them later became mountain belts by postorogenic processes. Syn: fold belt; orogenic; belt orogene.

mountains belt taken in the meaning of regional unit and time period of the geological history.

the rocks that comprise a suture zone.