Mountain Building Animation

This animation shows how the collision of India and Eurasia, which started about 50 million years ago and continues to this day, formed the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.

Credit: Kristel Chanard, Tectonics Observatory, California Institute of Technology; Tim Pyle, California Institute of Technology

[averagefireyenthusiast]

We all came here because of science class, didn’t we?

[tpstrat]

We came here because we're personally curious about the planet we live on, right? No teenager is being forced at threat of excommunication from all of society to learn about this ... Right????

[kapitan]

Sir Edmund Hillary had a bungalow on the beach there. During the night there was an almighty rumbling and rocking as India hit. Hillary woke the next morning to find he was the first man on the summit of Mount Everest. 🎉

[notme]

This is 13 yrs ago. I can't rely on this one. I need the newest theory with new technologies,

[yoxeexf]

How many pieces of how many plates just fell down into magma? How new plates are formed?

[XeoClip]

Hi!, Thank you verymuch for this great video. I am doing video lectures for my studens in youTube . I would like to use it If you allow me. I upload my videos with Creative Commons Lycense 4.0. Is it right for you???

[dukemacias]

yow kinsay makig kauban diha kay wa pakoy partner?

[cardiffuniversitycentrefor]

Hello, I am a member of staff at Cardiff University in Wales. I was hoping to use this video in an online course would it be possible to discuss usage with you ? Thanks

[dukemacias]

wazzup i hope ma pasa na ninyo ang activity 😊

[Skiddledazzle]

Quran27:88 Now you see the mountains, thinking they are firmly fixed, but they are travelling ˹just˺ like clouds. ˹That is˺ the design of Allah, Who has perfected everything.