Figure 9-17: The Collision of Two Plates Collisions between the plates that carry India and China have created Mount Everest and K2 in the Himalayas. (a) While plates typically move a few cm/yr, the Indian plate has sped along at up to 20 cm/yr. (b) Millions of years ago the ocean seafloor subducted neatly beneath the Eurasian plate, but now there is a buildup of crust on both plates that forms the Himalayas.