Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly ... that are still growing - like in South America’s Andes, or the world’s tallest mountain, Everest, in the Himalayas in Asia.

In addition, the diving plate melts and is often spewed out in volcanic eruptions such as those that formed some of the mountains in the Andes of South America. At ocean-ocean convergences ...

This odd process, called lithospheric dripping, has been proposed to occur under the Andes ... mountains and basins are built on planets like Venus or Mars, where there are no mobile tectonic ...