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big1devin

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How could the Himalayan Mountains be getting taller?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What are two possible scenarios for how accretion and continental growth happen?
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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abro1885

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Reply #1 on: Jul 16, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: Because the Indian plate is slamming into the Eurasian plate and causing mountain building.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: 1. Where any piece of nonsubductable continental crust, usually thick continental crust, or volcanic-arc crust enters a subduction zone at the edge of a continent, it is thrusted onto the edge of the continent.
2. If a continent follows subducting oceanic lithosphere into a trench, the buoyant continent cannot subduct and instead collides with the volcanic arc on the overriding plate. Then, a new subduction zone forms that faces in the opposite direction. The arc transfers from one plate to another and becomes part of the continent.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 16, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Excellent

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