Earth & Space

How Mountains Form

Name: How Mountains Form
Duration: 60 s
Description: Two plates of Earth collide — and over millions of years, the crumpled rock piles up into a Himalaya.

Two plates of Earth collide — and over millions of years, the crumpled rock piles up into a Himalaya.

Mount Everest. 8,848 metres. The roof of the world. But where did it come from? It wasn't always there.

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Tectonic PlatesFold vs Block MountainsDeep TimeHimalayas