The phrase "alpine chain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a series of mountains or mountain ranges that are characteristic of alpine regions.
Example: "The hikers were excited to explore the breathtaking views along the alpine chain that stretched across the landscape."
Alternatives: "mountain range" or "alpine range".
Lugeon became the chief proponent of Schardt's ideas and applied them in his interpretation of the entire Alpine chain.
Next, they marched single-file like an Alpine chain gang, up a 300-foot vertigo-inducing cliff delineated with yellow avalanche warning signs.
He demonstrated that the north front of the Alpine chain is composed of large superimposed nappes (folded sheets of rock thrust over the rocks beneath).
Furthermore, the area is cooler, both due to the altitude and the proximity to the Alpine chain". At the San Fereolo estate, proprietor Nicoletta Bocca explains that the landscape of Dogliani is also favorable to cultivating the Dolcetto grape.
But above all things I would like to affirm that even if I have traveled the greater part of Italy, I limited my conchological research to that portion which is crossed by the long chain of the Apennines, so that I have not ventured into the region surrounding the Alpine chain surrounding Lombardy.
Due to the employment of the two techniques we are able to infer the depth of a seismic discontinuity through the central and eastern Alpine chain.
Dramatic erosion occurred as the Alpine chains were rising, filling the furrow that now constitutes the Alpine Foreland.
Together with the north-African Rif, the Betic Cordillera constitutes the western end of the circum-Mediterranean Alpine chains.
This orientation does not follow the trend of the Alpine mountain chain, which is in contrast to the belt-parallel anisotropy that we expect in such a subduction-associated mountain chain, e.g. the Western Alps.
The Carpathian ranges, formed in Cenozoic times (i.e., within about the past 65 million years), are part of the Alpine Himalayan system and of the eastern arm of the European Alpine fold chain.
The Rwenzori Mountains are a high alpine mountain chain, about 40 × 80 km in size, just north of the equator in the western branch of the East African Rift System in Africa.
