Are the Himalayas getting higher or lower?

The Himalayas are a prime example of how tectonic plate motion can manipulate the earth in extraordinary ways. These colliding plates resulted in the formation of the highest mountain range on the planet.

By the Power of My Convections

Our continents are carried by a series of tectonic plates located in the earth’s lithosphere. These plates collide with and separate from each other at different rates determined by a process known as convection. Directly below the lithosphere is the inner mantle known as the aesthenosphere. Convection currents are generated in the earth’s inner mantle as molten rock forms from the radioactive decay of elements. As hot gas and liquid is produced it moves upward, displacing the cooler and denser gas and liquid. As this convection process happens, those circulations push the lithosphere’s plates (and the seven continents that sit on top of them), slowly shifting the globe’s landscape over time. The direction and rate of movement is totally dependent on what kinds of convection currents are at work below.