what do we call the fold mountains that are formed in the recent geological period
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The Himalayas are called as the young fold mountains due to the very fact that these mountains were created by the lift due to the subduction of the Indian plate under the Eurasian continental plate around 40 - 50 million years ago. The Himalayas comprises mostly of the sedimentary and the metamorphic rocks.
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