EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -When India and Tibet collided, instead of descending with the plate, the relatively light sedimentary and metamorphic rock that makes up the subcontinent of India pushed against Tibet, forcing it upwards, and created a massive mountain fold. The Himalayas.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rising at the border of Tibet and Nepal, Mount Everest formed from a tectonic smashup between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates tens of millions of years ago. The collision crumpled the landscape, raising mountains along some 1, 5000 miles, a range we know as the Himalaya.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fold mountains are created where two or more of Earth’s tectonic plates are pushed together. At these colliding, compressing boundaries, rocks and debris are warped and folded into rocky outcrops, hills, mountains, and entire mountain ranges. Fold mountains are created through a process called orogeny.