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What type of forces happened when India collided with Asia?
compression
What 2 land plates collided in the Indian ocean?
india and asia
What mountain range formed because India collided with Asia?
The Himalayas
Which mountains were formed when two continents collided?
The Himalayas were formed when the Indian Plate collided with the Eurasian Plate.
What happened to the ocean when India crashed into Asia?
Nothing really. It's like if you are swimming in a pool and you bump into someone, does the water change? One might say the ripple effect or the water would move, but when India collided with Asia, it was very gradual and not a full on collision
What Asian country was a separate continent?
India. Millions of years ago, it split off from the Australian-Antarctic landmass and moved north, where it collided with Asia.
How did the highest mountains form?
The highest mountains in the world are the Himalayas, which formed when India collided with Asia beginning around 35 million years ago.
What landform was the Indian subcontinent attached to?
In the beginning, the Indian subcontinent was apart of Africa. But then it began cracking and shifting away. Over the years it moved, and then collided with Asia. The collision formed the Himalayan Mountains and now India is apart of Asia!
Is Asia in India?
No. Asia is a continent. But India is a country. So India is situated in Asia, not Asia in India.
What two continents collided to create the Himalayas?
The Indian subcontinent broke off from Africa over a hundred million years ago. It then moved to the southern coast of Asia. When it collided with Asia, the formation of the Himalaya began.
How himalyas formed?
India is crashing into Asia. The Himalayas are being pushed up by the force of the collision.
How Himalayan mountain ranges appear?
The Himalayas were formed by tectonic movement... As the plate that India sits on collided with the continent of Asia the land mass at the point of collision was forced upward creating the Himalayas.
