But none of these plate boundaries are static ... subduction zone was transformed into a collision that formed the Himalaya and Tibetan plateau 7. Such a fate does not seem to be in store for ...

India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly giving rise to the Himalaya ... These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction ...

The Himalayan region has always been vulnerable ... The Eurasian-Indian plate boundary cuts across the northernmost parts of India, making the surrounding regions prone to earthquakes.

The project, estimated at around USD 137 billion, is located in the ecologically fragile Himalayan region along a tectonic plate boundary ...