| As the Indian plate continues to be driven under the Eurasian continent, what was once a sea-floor, is being pushed ever-higher, eventually forming some of the world's biggest mountains. Writer John McPhee suggests in his book "Assembling California" that plate tectonics can be put in perspective by noting there are sea shells at the top of Everest. |
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