India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly giving rise to the Himalaya, the highest mountain system ... These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in ...

Deep beneath the mountains of the Himalayas, something remarkable is taking place. The vast, rocky plate supporting India, ...

the two crush together at what is known as a collisional boundary. They crumple and fold. Some pieces of land are thrust over or under other pieces. The result is a mountain range. The Himalayas ...

Since the sediments were lightweight, instead of sinking along with the plate, they crumpled into mountain ranges ... Because Nepal's boundaries are marks on the Himalayan peaks and on the ...

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate ... mountain ranges, which are surficial manifests of Earth's thickened crust. Three such collision zones form the ...

An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near population centres - Friday's earthquake in Myanmar did both.