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

Three such collision zones form the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau ... continental crust lost to the mantle when two plates collide at each of these boundaries. To do so, Dr. Ziyi Zhu, Research Fellow ...

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 ...

For example, the Himalayas formed when India came into contact with Asia. It took more than 50 years for Wegener’s theory to be accepted. One of the reasons was that it was difficult to work out ...

The Earth's longest mountain chain isn't the Andes in South America, or the Himalayas in Asia ... At the East Pacific rise, which is pushing a plate into the west coast of South America, the ...

LIZ BONNIN: Hi, I’m Liz Bonnin. When we think about plate tectonics, we normally picture erupting volcanos, gigantic mountain ranges like the Himalayas, or terrifying tsunamis and earthquakes ...