GK
INDIAN GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Deccan Plateau
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Mount Everest
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Himalayas
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Eastern and Western Ghats
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. 225 million years ago (Ma) India was a large island situated off the Australian coast and separated from Asia by the Tethys Ocean.
Detailed explanation-2: -The mountains separate the plateau from the coastline and meet in the south at the tip of the triangular-shaped peninsula known as Peninsular India. Himalaya, Karakorum, and Hindu Kush mountain ranges separate South Asia from the rest of the continent of Asia.
Detailed explanation-3: -Examples of continent-continent convergent boundaries are the collision of the India Plate with the Eurasian Plate, creating the Himalaya Mountains, and the collision of the African Plate with the Eurasian Plate, creating the series of ranges extending from the Alps in Europe to the Zagros Mountains in Iran.