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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
World
Sadhna Yadav

Indian Tectonic Plate Breaking Into Two Beneath Tibet

Representative Image/Hannes Grobe/AWI, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

A new study has revealed that the Indian Continental Plate could split in two beneath the Tibetan Plateau.

The revelations were made at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco last December. It was already believed that the Himalayas were growing due to the collision of the Indian and Eurasian continental tectonic plates beneath them.

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