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It is thought that the summit of Mount Everest started at the bottom of the ancient Tethys Sea, the motion of the Indian sub continental plate and the urasian continental plate colliding, about 30 - 50 million years ago, caused the mountain to rise up and become the highest mountain on the Earth.
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Is Mount Everest located in Japan?
No, Mount Everest is located in India. Hmm, it must have moved then, it was on the Nepal-China (Tibet) border.
What caused Mt. Everest to form?
Mount Everest, the Mahalangur mountain range in Nepal and Tibet and the rest of the Himalayas were formed during the Cenozoic (from about 65 million years ago to the present) at the start of the collision of India with Asia. This collision movement continues today and Mount Everest is still growing.
What tectonic plates moved to make mount fuji erupt?
it is the pacific plate and the urasion plate
Why did Shepard's move closer to mount Everest?
I think you mean Sherpas instead of Shepards. Sherpas moved closer to Mount Everest to get work. Every climbing season hundreds of Sherpas are paid to carry loads on Mount Everest or fix routes etc. They can earn more in 1 month on Mount Everest than what they get by farming the rest of the year.
If the simple pendulum be changed and moved from the ground to Mount Everest?
nothing would change , may be a slight decrease in the accelration
How many people have died climbing up Mt Everest in 2010?
On the 25th April 2015, an earthquake measuring 7.8 M triggered an avalanche that hit Mount Everest Base Camp. 18 bodies were recovered from Mount Everest by the Indian army mountaineering team. The avalanche began on Pumori, moved through the Khumbu Icefall on the southwest side of Mount Everest, and slammed into the South Base Camp
Have the tectonic plates moved after the earthquake in Japan?
Yes, the plates have moved.
How is tectonic movement caused?
Tectonic plates are moved by hot lava under the crust.
What tectonic plate caused Christchurch's earthquakes?
there tectonic plates under the water. so when the tectonic plates are moved or hit each other means there will be an earthquake.
How is movement cause?
Tectonic plates are moved by hot lava under the crust.
Can Mount Zion be moved?
No not by man anyway.
What made continents move?
The continents moved because of the tectonic plates of earth that they rest on.
