Illustration showing how the movement of the tectonic plates created the Himalaya mountain range at a convergent plate boundary. The Himalayas started forming about 70 million years ago when the north-moving Indo-Australian Plate (left) collided with the Eurasian Plate (right). | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Garlick, Mark |
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