The India-Asia continental collision and the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau have long been attributed to continuous Cenozoic convergence with two generic assumptions: the ongoing India-Asia collision ...

Three such collision zones form the Himalaya-Tibetan ... including the loss of continental margin with the detached oceanic slab, continental subduction and dripping, a process whereby 'blobs ...

This phenomenon leads to the gradual disintegration of stable continental crust. Experts suggest that subduction—where a denser mantle layer is pushed beneath another—and mantle plumes ...

What happens, then, to keep the Earth the same size? The answer is subduction. In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other pieces of Earth's crust. The boundary ...