The Himalayan mountain belt formed through continent-continent collision (India-Asia collision), a compressional tectonic setting that characteristically produces folds and reverse (thrust) faults as rocks shorten and thicken under horizontal compressive stress.
As a classic collisional orogenic belt, the Himalaya is dominated by compressional deformation structures: folds (from layer shortening) and reverse/thrust faults (where older rock is...
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