explain the formation of the Himalayan mountains
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⟶ Formation of Himalayan mountains :-
- The Indian Peninsula drifted towards the north and finally collided with the much larger Eurasian Plate.
- As a result of this collision, the sedimentary rocks which were accumulated in the geosynclines (known as Tethys) got folded and formed the mountain systems of the West Asia and Himalayas.
Answer:
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. These scraped-off sediments are what now form the Himalayan mountain range.
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The formation of the Himalayan mountains is all to do with tectonic plate movements. Millions of years ago, the Earth started breaking up into the continents we have today. Before this, the world was a big land mass called Pangea.
When Pangea started breaking apart, the Indo-Australian plate (India) was forced to move further and further North until it was pushed up against the Eurasian Plate. Please refer to the image to the right of this text that I have selected to show you the movement of India over millions of years and where it collided with the Eurasian plate.
One plate moved under the other. The two plates which are now Asia and India came together and the land at the boundary was forced upwards and a mountain was formed there. I also selected an image showing this process using a cross section diagram-located to the left. As you can see the image shows a before and after image so the process of what has happened is very clear.
This is why the Himalayas are in a few different countries-the mountains were formed on a plate boundary!