Q. Which mountains are called ‘young Mountains:
Solution:
- The Himalayan range is one of the youngest mountain ranges on the planet and consists mostly of uplifted sedimentary and metamorphic rock.
- The Himalayas are known as the young fold mountains because they have been formed only few million years ago.
- They were formed because of the folding of the earth’s crust due to tectonic activity (fold mountains are formed when two tectonic plates collide with one another).
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