EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The crust beneath the Himalaya, the most towering mountain range on Earth, is still the process of being compressed. Here, the Indian plate is colliding northward with the Eurasian plate.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Himalayan mountain chain is an example of a continental collision. 40 million years ago, the Indian plate collided with the Eurasian plate.

Detailed explanation-4: -Himalayan Mountains are an example of a Continent-Continent convergent plate boundary where two slabs of continental crust have collided and compressing the crust and the acretionary wedge material and lifting it to form the Himalayan Mountains. Indonesia is another example of an Ocean-Ocean convergent plate boundary.

Detailed explanation-5: -Due to the density of the Indian plate being higher, it slid below the Eurasian plate and in the process disintegrated and clasped up the Eurasian plate into the various mountain ranges that are now a part of the Himalayas.