Convergent: continental-continental (The Himalayas)

0 of 12 labels placed

A	Asthensphere

B	Himalayan mountain peaks

C	Granite plutons formed by the melting of continental crust at depth

D	Accretionary wedge: folded and faulted sediments from the former Tethyan Ocean

E	Zone of partial melting

F	Thickened lithosphere

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Direction of plate movement

G	Indian Plate

H	Lithosphere

I	Benioff zone

J	Eurasian Plate

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