These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass. As the overlying plate lifts up, it also forms mountain ranges.

The result is a mountain range. The Himalayas, the highest mountains in the world, were created this way. ... The Continental Slide (convergent boundary) Slippin' and a Slidin' ...

The highest mountain ranges on Earth -- such as the Himalayas or the Andes -- arise along convergent plate boundaries. At such plate boundaries two tectonic plates move toward each other, and one ...

Recent interpretations of Himalayan–Tibetan tectonics have proposed that channel flow in the middle to lower crust can explain outward growth of the Tibetan plateau1,2,3, and that ductile ...

It marks the boundary where two tectonic plates fused together and an ancient ocean disappeared. Our team of geologists traveled here to collect rocks that erupted as lava more than 60 million ...

At convergent boundaries, ... That sinking crust can lift the land above and result in massive mountain ranges, like the Himalayas that house Mount Everest, Van Orman said.