So, we’ve got a map here. Do you guys know ... land and often form mountain ranges. Most mountains are fold mountains - created when two tectonic plates collide and force the ground up.
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 ...
Where plates serving landmasses collide, the crust crumples and buckles into mountain ranges. India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly giving rise to the Himalaya, the highest ...