Meagan Valero- Week 5 Himalaya Mountains

The beautiful Himalayan mountains were formed due to two continental drifts being pushed together along the convergent boundaries between the Indo-Austrailian plate and Eurasian plate. The Arakan Yoma highlands in Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengai were also formed as a result of this collision. The Himalayan range is one of the youngest mountain ranges on the planet and consist mostly of uplifted sedimentary and metamorphic rock. Since both plates were composed of low density continental crust, they were thrust faulted and folded into mountain ranges. Due to these plates still moving today, the Himalayan Mountains continue to rise by 1cm per year causing the region to experience earthquakes from time to time.