EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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Question
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The indo-Australian plate is moving toward the Eurasian plate
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The South American plate is moving away from the African plate
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The Pacific plate is sliding northward past the North American plate
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The Eurasian plate and the North American plate are diverging
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Detailed explanation-1: -About 250 million years ago, India was part of the landmass called the Gondwana land. Eventually, the Indo-Australian plate collided with the Eurasian Plate. This led to the formation of the Himalayas.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Typically, a convergent plate boundary-such as the one between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate-forms towering mountain ranges, like the Himalaya, as Earth’s crust is crumpled and pushed upward.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: The plate boundary between the Eurasian Plate and Indian Plate is a convergent boundary. The Indian Plate used to be part of the Indo-Australiann Plate and has broken away from it around 8 million years ago as it was moving northwards to the Eurasian Plate.
Detailed explanation-5: -Summary. The Himalayan mountain chain is an example of a continental collision. 40 million years ago, the Indian plate collided with the Eurasian plate. The enormous pressure forces resulting from this shock caused a gigantic mountain uplift.