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PLATE TECTONICS
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Therefore, as the plates move, the continents move. For example, North America and Europe are getting further away from each other because the plates they are embedded in are moving apart. Plates can also come together. This may cause continents to collide. The Himalaya Mountains are forming from the collision between the continents of Asia and India. This movement of India into Asia started in the Jurassic, with the impact into the Cenozoic.

There have been times in the Earth’s past when many plates carrying continents came together at the same time. This formed one huge plate that contained a single supercontinent


Cretaceous 65 million years



Jurassic 180 million years

Triassic 225 million years

Premian 280 million years

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