Himalayan mountain range falls under which type of mountains?

Q. Himalayan mountain range falls under which type of mountains?
Answer: Fold Mountain
Notes: Himalayas is called fold mountain because initially there was an ocean where the himalayas and the tibetan plateau stand today. The ocean was called Tethys sea. The sea bed “folded” to form the mountain range, so it is called the fold mountains.

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