The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an ... they crumpled into mountain ranges—the Himalayas. By 10 million years ago the two continents were in direct ...

Different plate tectonic settings produce distinctive ... including the interior of South America, east of the Andes, a subduction boundary; and the depositional basins bordering the Himalayas and ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries ... slowly giving rise to the Himalaya, the highest mountain system on Earth. As the mash-up continues, the mountains get ...

The Earth's longest mountain chain isn't the Andes in South America, or the Himalayas in Asia, or even North America's Rockies. It's an underwater chain of mountains 47,000 miles long. The chain ...

The highest mountain ranges are created by tectonic plates pushing together and forcing the ground up where they meet. This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

The Puna Plateau is part of the Central Andes, a mountain belt in which the elevation is mainly driven by lithospheric strength and tectonic forces. Credit must be given to the creator.