Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent ... slowly giving rise to the Himalaya, the highest mountain system on Earth. As the mash-up continues, the ...

There are currently 7 giant plates sliding across the ... Because Nepal's boundaries are marks on the Himalayan peaks and on the plains of India whose convergence we are measuring, Nepal will ...

At divergent boundaries, plates move away from each other and ... zone was transformed into a collision that formed the Himalaya and Tibetan plateau 7. Such a fate does not seem to be in store ...

Different plate tectonic settings produce distinctive ... east of the Andes, a subduction boundary; and the depositional basins bordering the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau, a continental suture zone.