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How do two continents colliding build a mountain range like the Himalaya?

The summit of Mount Everest is made of marine limestone packed with fossils of creatures that once lived on a seabed, and it sits up there, 8,849 metres above sea level, because two continents have been crashing into each other for about 50 million years.

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