Instead, the two crush together at what is known as a collisional boundary ... The result is a mountain range. The Himalayas, the highest mountains in the world, were created this way.
The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent ... into mountain ranges. India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly giving rise to the Himalaya ...
with major hotspots in the core of the Himalayan biogeographic belt, the Hengduan Mountains, where prominent phylogenetic ...