Kath and I are takin' our first stop in Nepal to visit the majestic Mount Everest. We are staying in Hotel Himalaya, with two awesome guides named Angie and Gleb! They are the rocks that hold us down, because otherwise, Kathyyyy and I would be lost in two seconds. Right now I am at lunch with Kath, Gleb and Angie. Kath and I are learning from Angie and Gleb how plate tectonics work. Today I learned that the kind of plate tectonics that are affiliated with Mount Everest is called "collision". When two converging plates are carrying continents, the two continents bind and become a large, single continent. This is called a collision boundary. Collision causes the crust at the boundary to be pushed upward into a mountain range. Specifically in the Himalaya mountain range, the collision boundary of India and China push together.There has been earthquake activity in the Himalayas (27°59'N, 86°55'E), the most recent one dating back to June 22, 2008. This earthquake had a 3.7 magnitude but that doesn't compare to the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that happened here on October 19, 1991! I sure do hope that we will never encounter this back in Seattle, because after all we are susceptible! But don't worry!
Keep reading guys... more to come!!
-Miss. Leah
This is an animated photo of two plates colliding to make a mountain range. (www.divediscover.whoi.edu )
You pair sound like fabulous teachers! The kids are so lucky to have you :)
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