Describe how the himaliyas were formed
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The Himalayan mountain range and Tibetan plateau have formed as a result of the collision between the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate which began 50 million years ago and continues today. 225 million years ago (Ma) India was a large island situated off the Australian coast and separated from Asia by the Tethys Ocean.
Answer:
The oldest landmass, (the Peninsula part), was
a part of the Gondwana land. The Gondwanaland
included India, Australia, South Africa and South
America as one single land mass. The convectional
currents split the crust into a number of pieces,
thus leading to the drifting of the Indo-Australian
plate after being separated from the Gondwana
land, towards north. The northward drift resulted
in the collision of the plate with the much larger
Eurasian Plate. Due to this collision, the
sedimentary rocks which were accumulated in
the geosyncline known as the Tethys were folded
to form the mountain system of western Asia and
Himalaya.
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