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

The Himalayas, Earth's towering mountain range, stand as the product of a slow-motion geological collision between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. This monumental clash has been shaping ...

data shows that a collision between two major tectonic plates may be having some unforeseen consequences for Tibet. While we already knew that the Himalayas were growing, these new findings ...

Scientists analyzing seismic data from southern Tibet discovered that the Indian tectonic plate is fragmenting as it subducts ...

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. Image caption ...

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 tectonic plates are the gigantic shards into which ... the Eurasian plate and the crust tilted upwards, creating the Himalayas. The fractured zones along which they interact create the fault ...

The Himalayan mountain range was formed after the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collided around 50 million years ago. How does their movement continue to impact the region?

The towering Himalayas, Earth's most iconic mountain range, continue to astonish scientists. Beneath their majestic peaks, the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates engage in a slow-motion collision ...