Question

Were the Himalayan Mountains formed at a blank plate boundary between the Eurasian plate and the Indian plate?

• A. divergence plate boundary
• B. transform plate boundary
• C. convergence plate boundary
• D. subduction zone

Answer 1

Answer:

C. convergence plate boundary

Convergent plate margins

• When the margins of one oceanic plate collide with another, one plate descends under the adjacent plate and melts down to form the part of the mantle. This may lead to the formation of oceanic trenches. The Mariana trench in the Pacific Ocean is one such. Volcanoes are more frequent and extensive along these regions

• The margins where seafloor of one plate meets the continental portion of adjacent plate, the denser ocean floor sinks. This causes earthquakes of big intensity.

• Due to the collision of the plate margins where continents occur on both sides of the plate margin fold mountains are formed. The Himalayan ranges were formed this way. The collision of the Indian plate with the Eurasian plate has produced the Himalayas

• Fold Mountains are formed along the convergent margins. For example, the Himalaya is a fold mountain range formed between the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate.

  Convergent margins

• Himalaya - Boundary of Indian plate and Eurasian plate

• Andes - Boundary of pacific Plate and South American Plate

• Alps - Boundary of African - Eurasian plates

• Atlas - Boundary of African and Eurasian plate