Himalayan Mountains Plate Boundary Type
The himalayas which stretch over 2400 km between the namche barwa syntaxis in tibet and the nanga parbat syntaxis in india are the result of an ongoing orogeny the result of a collision of the continental crust of two tectonic plates. Which type of plate boundary would be most likely to lead to above ground volcanic activity. http://legacy.earlham.edu/~pinema/pics/Convergence%20map.gif Earlham College Geology 211 Himalayas This caused the continental crust to thicken due to folding and faulting by compressional forces pushing up the himalaya and the tibetan plateau.
