Prelims ask
Gerlachovský štít is in Slovakia. Poland shares the Tatras but not the highest summit.
Europe · Young fold
Carpathians
- Countries
- Arc through Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Romania and Serbia.
- Length
- About 1,500 km.
- Orientation
- A hook: east from the north, then south through Romania.
- Mountain type
- Young fold
- Plates
- Alpine orogeny on the African–Eurasian collision system.
- Highest peak
- Gerlachovský štít, 2,655 m, High Tatras, Slovakia.
- Rivers that rise here
- The Danube does not rise here. It cuts the range at the Iron Gates (Romania–Serbia). The Tisza drains the inner basin.
- Climate and rain shadow
- The arc helps enclose the drier Pannonian basin.
Mains use
Example of a river antecedent to, or superimposed across, a young fold arc.