So, we’ve got a map here ... the surrounding land and often form mountain ranges. Most mountains are fold mountains - created when two tectonic plates collide and force the ground up.

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges ... is divided into large, rigid tectonic plates that move over time ...

Most geologic activity stems from the interplay where the plates meet or divide. The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic ... and buckles into mountain ranges.

Four types of plate tectonic activity ... two land masses on plates are pushed together. Trying to occupy the same space, the land masses buckle and fold, creating mountain ranges.

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 ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

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 ...