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Himalayas Mountain

The document discusses several major mountain ranges around the world. It provides details about the location and formation of the Himalayan mountains, noting they formed from the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates around 50 million years ago. It also mentions the Alps arose from the collision of the African and Eurasian plates.

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Himalayas Mountain

The document discusses several major mountain ranges around the world. It provides details about the location and formation of the Himalayan mountains, noting they formed from the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates around 50 million years ago. It also mentions the Alps arose from the collision of the African and Eurasian plates.

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HIMALAYAS MOUNTAIN
1. The Himalayan Mountain stretches from Mainland China in the East to Pakistan in the
West across Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet and Northeast India. The western anchor of the
Himalayas lies in Pakistan to the South of the Indus River, while its Eastern anchor is
Mount Namcha Barwa to the west of the great Bend of the Yarlung Zangbo River.
2. The Himalayan mountain range and Tibetan plateau have formed as a result of the
collision between the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate which began 50 million years ago
and continues today.

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B. SIERRA MADRE
1. The Sierra Madre is located in the Philippines.
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C. ALPS
1. The Alps stretch roughly 700 miles in a crescent shape across southern and central
Europe, north of the Mediterranean Sea. Beginning near Monaco on the coastline of
southern France, the Alps extend through Switzerland, northern Italy, Germany, Austria,
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro, before ending on
the coastline of the Adriatic Sea in Albania.
2. The Alps arose as a result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates.
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D. ANDES MOUNTAINS
1. The Andes extend from north to south through seven South American countries:
Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.
2. Nazca Plate and the South American Plate
3. Convergent plate boundary.
E. DRAKENSBERG
1. Located in South Africa and Lesotho.
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F. PYRENEES
1. The Pyrenees Mountains form the natural border between France and Spain,
and it completely engulfs the nation of Andorra
2. the microcontinent Iberia and the southwestern promontory of the European Plate
3. The collision of the plates involved.
G. ROCKY MOUNTAINS
1. Located within the North American Cordillera, the Rockies are distinct from
the Pacific Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, and the Sierra Nevada, which all lie
farther to the west
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H. APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
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