SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -The four major maintain ranges in Europe are the Appenines on the Italian Peninsula, the Pyrenees which create a border between France and Spain, the Alps which extend in an arc through eight European countries, and the Carpathians, which are a lower mountain range that continues out eastward from the Alps.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Carpathians divide Europe’s southern Alpine region from the hilly central uplands.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Alps and Apennines are the two belts in the hangingwall of two opposite subduction zones. In the Alps the European plate subducted beneath the Adriatic plate, whereas in the Apennines the Adriatic, Ionian, Sicily and African plates subducted ‘’westerly”, retreating from the European upper plate.