Asia
India
Asia
India
India bulldozes the sea floor sediments up into folds, making the Sea of
Tethys even shallower.
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India
Salt lakes
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India
Layers of sediment
get increasingly
folded.
As the sea dries up, the salt lakes become the salt
deposits of the future, trapped in fold mountains.
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India
The folding becomes more dramatic and complex as the fold
mountains get higher.
Volcanic
activity
increases.
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India
Asia India
The new range of mountains is called the Himalayas. They
are entirely made from sedimentary and metamorphic rock.
Asia India
As the two continents collide, the destructive plate margin
becomes inactive and volcanic activity almost stops. There is
still some forward movement of the Indian plate, so the
Himalayas are still growing higher.
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India
Eventually, some time in the future, a new destructive plate
margin will form at the edge of the Indian Ocean.
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India