I have decided to visit the Himalayan mountains for this week's journal because I was recently reading
up about it. The Himalayan mountain range has formed from the result of a continental and continental
collision between the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate which took place about 50 million years ago. This
range resulted from huge tectonic forces and sculpted by the process of weathering and erosion. The
Himalayas was formed by compressive stress which we know squeezes rocks together causing them to
fracture or fold. Additionally, this mountain is made up of metamorphic rocks and granites that are
situated very high. As mentioned, this area was a collision zone where tectonic plates push up mountain
ranges so we know it is a reverse fault where one block of crust slides on top of another.
Himalayas -wikipedia.org
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