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Some mountain ranges, such as the Himalayan Mountain Range are still growing because the tectonic collision that created them is still occuring. The rate of uplift exceeds the rate of erosion. Many mountain ranges, such as the Appalachian Mountains on the North American continent are a result on plate collisions that occured several hundred million years ago, and erosion has greatly eroded their height. At one time, the Appalachian Mountains were higher than Mount Everest, the current highest point on the planet's surface.

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because mount Everest is a mountain range which means two tectonic plates are moving into each other very slowly. as they push into each other the mountain will get taller.
Mt. Everest increases about an inch in height each year because when the Eurasian plate and the Indian- Australian plate crash together at a convergent plate boundary both plates push up into the peaks of the Himalaya Mountain Range, causing Mt. Everest to push up higher.

Although erosion is a factor of how far Mt. Everest raises the mountain pushes more than erosion wears away at it therefore it balances with erosion to produce an average of one inch increase in height each year.

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The Himalayas are formed from a continent to continent collision which causes a massive thickening and uplift of the collision zone. The Andes are formed from an oceanic to continental collision, where one crust (the oceanic) subducts under the other. Continent to continent collisions produce the highest mountain ranges.

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because India is pushing agents china, and the land is going on top of china thus creating the Himalayas

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Because the energy that created it (and the rest of the Himilayas) still has not disipated (stopped moving) yet.

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Its not the worlds atmosphere is getting thiner

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The plates are not moving apart. The Indian and Eurasian plates are colliding. As this happens, some of the rock in the collision area is forced up.

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They are still growing.

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