are found at a special form of destructive boundary. They form where two continental plates are forced together by the convection currents in the upper mantle. At collision zones fold mountains ...
Papers with interesting supplementary info (which can be a pain to track down, so I've provided bundled links), movies, and selected recent papers. More publications on my CIRES page. Tectonic ...
Three such collision zones form the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau ... lost to the mantle when two plates collide at each of these boundaries. To do so, Dr. Ziyi Zhu, Research Fellow at Monash ...
Pangea essentially turned inside out, the edges of the old continent becoming the collision zones of new continents ... are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator.
My research centers on the tectonic development of northeastern China during the assembly of Asia ... The India-Asia collision has also triggered the uplift of numerous mountain ranges in Asia that ...