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in very very short in 2-3 short sentences put what happened during the event, which tectonic plates were involved, how it changed earths surface, and how many yera ago it was talking about the formation mountain ranges
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Which mountain range or event do you mean? If you want examples, here are four very short ones:
- Himalayas: The Indian Plate collided with the Eurasian Plate about 50 million years ago, crumpling and thickening the crust to uplift the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.
- Andes: The oceanic Nazca Plate has been subducting beneath the South American Plate for tens of millions of years, causing uplift, volcanism, and the long Andean chain (major uplift since ~30–20 Ma).
- Rockies: During the Laramide orogeny ~80–55 Ma, the Farallon Plate subducted shallowly under North America, compressing and uplifting crust to form the Rocky Mountains.
- Appalachians: Between ~480–300 Ma, collisions among ancestral North America, Africa and Europe during Pangaea’s assembly folded and thickened the crust to build the Appalachians, which have since been heavily eroded.
- Himalayas: The Indian Plate collided with the Eurasian Plate about 50 million years ago, crumpling and thickening the crust to uplift the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.
- Andes: The oceanic Nazca Plate has been subducting beneath the South American Plate for tens of millions of years, causing uplift, volcanism, and the long Andean chain (major uplift since ~30–20 Ma).
- Rockies: During the Laramide orogeny ~80–55 Ma, the Farallon Plate subducted shallowly under North America, compressing and uplifting crust to form the Rocky Mountains.
- Appalachians: Between ~480–300 Ma, collisions among ancestral North America, Africa and Europe during Pangaea’s assembly folded and thickened the crust to build the Appalachians, which have since been heavily eroded.
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