The Himalayas, Earth's towering mountain range, stand as the product of a slow-motion geological collision between ... the Indian Plate is "delaminating" as it slides beneath the Eurasian Plate ...

When the plates collide, the denser plate, usually the oceanic one, is forced underneath the continental plate. The force of this collision ... where the Eurasian and North American Plates are ...

For at least 80 million years the oceanic Indian Plate continued its inexorable collision with southern Asia, including Tibet. The heavy ocean floor north of ... of collision between India and ...

The collision of the Indian plate with the Eurasian plate is causing the Himalayas ... This phenomenon may contribute to increased seismic activity in North India, Northeast India, and Tibet.