How did the Himalayas mountains form?
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The Himalaya's formed when the sub continent of India broke away from Gondwanalandand from memory approx 55 million years ago. Gondwanaland was comprised of the continents we now know as Antarctica, Australia, South America and Africa.  The Indian piece travelled north and collided with Asia ie where India now is.  This caused uplift of the collision forming the Himalaya's.  It is anticipated that Australia (which is drifting north at a rate of 13cm per year will eventually form part of mainland China.  It would be likely by that time that the Himalaya's would be considerably smaller due to erosion and the collision between Australia and China will create a new mountain range.
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The Rockies were formed in the Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic eras during the Cordilleran orogeny. They are geologically complex, with remnants of an ancestral Rocky Mt. system and evidence that uplift, which involved almost all mountain-building processes, occurred as a series of pulses over millions of years. The mountains have since been eroded to expose ancient crystalline cores flanked by thick upturned layers of sedimentary rocks. Glaciers and snowfields, which cover portions of the northern ranges and the high peaks of the south, were at one time more extensive; throughout the system the erosional features of alpine glaciation are apparent.\n\n:)\nPeace!
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This is the Wilson Cycle, and it is driven by plate tectonics. \n\nContinents are composed of relatively light weight felsic igneous rocks such as granites and granodiorites. Ocean basins are composed of mafic igneous rocks like basalt and gabbro that are heavier than continental crust. Since the earth's mantle is plastic, these different masses of rock tend to 'float' at different levels. This is called isostacy.\n\nOceanic plate motion originates at the mid-ocean ridges, pushing oceanic plates outward towards the continents. This motion and force is far from being uniform from one ocean basin to another, and is not even consistent along the length of the mid-ocean spreading centers. \n\nWhere oceanic plates meet continental plates there is a convergent plate boundary and generally this leads to subduction of the oceanic plate. There is considerable force however, and the style of subduction does vary. Since the forces that are being applied, as well as the resistance of the continental plates all are varied, there are inequities that cause the continents to move in one direction. Eventually this motion results in a collision of continents called a supercontinent because continents will not subduct under one another. India and Asia, and the Himalayas are a great example of a continental convergent plate boundary. Eventually the convection forces that cause the supercontinent to form will begin rifting it apart again creating new smaller continents. \n\nHere is a model of the Wilson Cycle:\nhttp://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/vageol/vahist/wilsonsimp.html
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well I don't know how old it is but I'm pretty sure they formed from two tectonics plates crashing in a convergent matter causing reverse faults\n\nin other words two land plate crashed and all that pressure made the mountains
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Continental/Continental plate convergence.\n\nThis happens during mountain building episodes called orogenies.
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INDIAN geography---\n\nThe territory of India constitutes a major portion of the Indian subcontinent, situated on the Indian Plate, the northerly portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, in southern Asia. India's northern and northeastern states are partially situated in the Himalayan Mountain Range. The rest of northern, central and eastern India consists of the fertile Indo-Gangetic plain. In the west, bordering southeast Pakistan, lies the Thar Desert. The southern Indian Peninsula is almost entirely composed of the Deccan plateau, which is flanked by two hilly coastal ranges, the Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats.\n\nIndia is home to several major rivers, including the Ganga, Brahmaputra, Yamuna, Godavari, Kaveri, Narmada, and Krishna. India has three archipelagos – Lakshadweep off the southwest coast, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands-volcanic island chain to the southeast, and the Sunderbans in the Gangetic delta in West Bengal.\n\nClimate in India varies from tropical in the south to more temperate in the Himalayan north, with elevated regions in the north receiving sustained snowfall in winters. India's climate is strongly influenced by the Himalayas and the Thar Desert. The Himalayas, along with the Hindu Kush mountains in Pakistan, provide a barrier to the cold winds from Central Asia. This keeps most of the Indian subcontinent warmer than most locations in similar latitudes. The Thar Desert is responsible for attracting the moisture laden southwest monsoon winds that provide most of India's rainfall between June and September.\n\n\nfor more info\nsee this link--\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_India
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Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range.
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How do plants have mountains?
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Two ideas: 1. Eroded (continental glaciers form deep valleys)\n                 2. Depressed (see link on isostacy)\n\nMaybe look in your text book.
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Mountain: Mountain Peak-Everest, Range-Himalayas, Location-Nepal/Tibet, Height- 29,035 ft/8,850 metres\nRiver: Nile, Country-Egypt, Miles-4145, Kilometers-6670
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Mandy and Benny both have valid points. It's because of plate tectonics, because of which continents moved. Pangea (single continent) that existed millions and millions of years ago...slowly started dispersing and if you see the movement of india subcontinent, it moved all the way from southern africa and joined asian continent. This must have created a pileup of land that benny is talking about.
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The Himalayas are the greatest natural formation in the world, and I have been there many times. I find there is something deeply mystical about these ranges, which are supposed to be the abode of the Gods.\n\nLife at high altitudes is hard, and the people of the Himalayas are hardy and tough, yet kind and gentle.
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That has absolutely no sense at all...\n\nHow do you think the Rocky Mountains and the Andes were formed but by millions of years of earthquakes????\n\nWas it hot then?\n\nOf course not! Some of them occured during the glacial era. No SUVs then!\n\nStop listening to stupid people such as Greenpiss!!!
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The northern range of is called Himalayan Range (or The Himalayas).  The Northwestern range is called Hindukush Mountain range.
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I take it you are asking about Landforms.\n\nIndia is a large country so the country has diverse weather, fertility and environment.\n\nIndia extends from the Himalayas in the north, the world's largest mountain range, and the Ganges River.  And it goes all the way south to the tropical Indian ocean.\n\nThe Himalayas form the highest mountain range in the world, and slope southward into a large fertile plain that covers much of India. \n\nThe Ganges is the heartbeat of India and one of the most significant rivers on the planet. \n\nAs far as tourist attractions go it's difficult to provide a brief list of things to see and do\n\nThe not to be missed parts are\n\nThe Taj Mahal, one of the premier destinations on the planet.\n\nAgra Fort; Delhi, and the charms of both the old and new mixing together; \n\nThe beaches and churches of Goa, \n\nThe beautiful Himalayan region.
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That's not really easy to answer, as the older mountains get, the more they diminish and blend with the surrounding land.  So many places where you see large, rolling hills or even flat land may have once been mountains.  If you do a Google search, you will find at least three different mountain ranges that people say are the oldest (Blue Ridge Mts. in Georgia, some Indian mountains, and the above-mentioned Australian mountains).  I would personally say that they're all wrong, and the oldest mountains are probably something very unimpressive that we don't even call mountains.
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Plate margin orogenesis refers to mountain building along plate margins, as caused by tectonic forces of movements of plates relative to one another. Two colliding  plates (destructive margin) cause rocks being squeezed together to fold, form faults, and lift. This may be associated with metamorphism and plutonism. \n    The Himalayas, Andes, Cascades, mountain ranges of New Zealand and Japan, Aleutians are all examples of orogenesis (mountain building) occurring along plate margins.