For centuries, we have been taught that there are seven continents, but new research has suggested there are actually only ...

India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly giving rise to the Himalaya, the highest mountain system on Earth. As the mash-up continues, the mountains get higher. Mount Everest ...

gradually pushing the tectonic plates the Americas are resting on westwards. They believe that the Pacific will completely close up in 200-300 million years, slowly uniting the continents of Asia ...

Asia is the world’s largest continent ... The Himalayas were created when the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collided and rose upwards, making fold mountains. The Brahmaputra River flows ...

Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this ... Everest, in the Himalayas in Asia.

To understand the fascinating mechanics of the collision of India with Asia we must first look beneath the Earth's surface. The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on ...

Then India rapidly moves south, followed by parts of Southeast Asia as the past continent ... Earth is unique for having ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.