GEOLOGY

EARTH SCIENCE

SEISMOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which type of tectonic plate boundary occurs where the Indian plate collides with the Himalayas?
A
Convergent
B
Divergent
C
Transform
D
Fault
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The northerly side of the Plate is a convergent boundary with the Eurasian Plate forming the Himalaya and Hindu Kush mountains, called the Main Himalayan Thrust.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Himalayan Mountains formed at a convergence plate boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the Indian plate.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Continental-continental convergence The collision of India into Asia 50 million years ago caused the Indian and Eurasian Plates to crumple up along the collision zone.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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