The Himalayan mountains'

                                                                  Source: Koshy Koshy via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Last November, my daughter and I visited the Himalayan Mountains', as soon as she laid eyes on the beautiful complex convergent continental plate boundary, she could tell that this mountain range was profoundly special. As we joked, I begin to listen to her explain, that the Himalayas were probably form under a lot of compressional stresses, due to the degree of the thrust fault formations. These apparent asymmetric extreme angled anticline-synclines of this fold belt are metamorphic rock due to its dark appearance. She notes, that the propagation folds are dramatically uplifting the continental crust as the younger rocks are forced over the older rocks.