造ぞう山ざん帯たい

noun

orogenic belt; orogenic zone

Geological term for a long, narrow region of mountain-building activity, typically at convergent plate boundaries.

• 日本にほん列れっ島とうは環かん太たい平へい洋よう造ぞう山ざん帯たいの一いち部ぶです。

  The Japanese archipelago is part of the circum-Pacific orogenic belt.