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It is thought that Mount Everest and the Himalayas 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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The Himalayas are a mountain range in Asia. They are being formed by the Indian subcontinent submerging under the Asian continent.


What type of plate margin formed the Himalayas?

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What type of plates form the Himalayas?

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Does the himilayas have earthquakes?

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Which mountains were formed when two continents collided?

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What are mountains formed by the collision of the indo Australian plate and the Eurasian plate?

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The border between Nepal and Tibet is formed by what mountain?

Mount Everest, which is found in the Himalayas mountain range


What plate margin formed the Himalayas?

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How were the Andes mountains the Himalayas and the islands of japan formed alike?

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How was the mountain system of the Himalayas formed?

the humans of Himalaya built them


What from of plate tectonic movement formed the Himalayas?

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