Cartoon cross sections showing the meeting of these two plates
before and after their collision. The reference points (small
squares) show the amount of uplift of an imaginary point in the
Earth's crust during this mountain-building process. |
The collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates has pushed
up the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.
The 6,000-km-plus journey of the India landmass (Indian Plate)
before its collision with Asia (Eurasian Plate) about 40 to 50
million years ago (see text). India was once situated well south
of the Equator, near the continent of Australia. |