Tectonic Plates and Faults - Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design - page 151

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Figure 5.7 Convergent oceanic-continental boundaries: (a) Subduction of oceanic
plate; (b) Main convergent oceanic-continental boundaries (USGS, nd)
Continental-continental convergent plates (collision) (Fig. 5.8a), when two
continental plates, having similar density, collide into each other. The crusts of
these plates tend to buckle, forming mountain belts. Currently, the highest
mountains in the world represent the result of this collision. The Himalayan
Mountains resulted from the collision, 10 million years ago, of the plate containing
India with the Eurasia plate (China-Tibetan plateau) (Fig. 5.8 b).
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Figure 5.8 (continues)