The Andes have formed as a result of a subduction zone while the Himalayas have formed as a result of a convergent plate boundary.
The Gobi Desert spans across Mongolia and China. It specifically runs across northwestern and northern China and Southern Mongolia. The Gobi is a large desert region in Asia and is a rain shadow desert formed by the Himalaya range blocking rain-carrying clouds from the Indian Ocean from reaching the Gobi territory. The Gobi is most notable for it being the location for several important cities in the Silk Road and as part of the Great Mongol Empire.
Answer:
- Plate movements on Earth’s crust create stress.
- This adds energy to the crust, which then bends and breaks, forming mountains and geological basins.
Explanation:
The tectonic plates literally float over the magma. Thus, what makes the tectonic plates move is precisely the movement of this magma! And this movement does not happen at all, but in a cyclical variation, which we call Earth convection currents or cells.
The movement of tectonic plates moving over the asthenosphere (pasty part) interacting over time in a geodynamic process that results in the origin of mountains and geological basins, causing seismic quakes (earthquakes and tidal wave), volcanism, magmatism and other geological events (formation of mountain ranges and underwater pits) all due to these plate movements.
Answer:
Ophiolites
Explanation:
Ophiolites are regarded as a part of the Earth's oceanic crust and the underlying upper mantle which has moved up above the sea level thereby exposing it to the surface. They usually form a part of the continental crustal rocks.
Ophiolites are important and greatly influence Geologists having an idea about the composition of ocean crust.
