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The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau to the north have risen very rapidly. In just 50 million years, peaks such as Mt. Everest have risen to heights of more than 9 km. The impinging of the two landmasses has yet to end. The Himalayas continue to rise more than 1 cm a year -- a growth rate of 10 km in a million years!
The force of this impact slowly pushed the land between them to fold up into big new mountains which we call the Himalayas. So at the very top of the Himalaya mountains you can find limestone that formed at the bottom of the ocean. Plate tectonics pushed the limestone up to the top of the mountain. The Himalayas are older than the Alps, but they're younger than the Rocky Mountains. A video tour of the Himalayas. The Himalayas separate India from the rest of Asia, forming the border between India and China and between India and Central Asia. The word Himalayas comes from the Sanskrit phrase home of the snow, because the Himalaya mountains are high enough to always have snow on them. They are the highest mountains in the world.