JoHeWe

JoHeWe t1_jc7xo3g wrote

IIRC, the Himalays are both the Asian and Indian plates crumbling. There're three types of plates touching: convergent, divergent, and transform (towards each other, apart from each other and alongside each other). There's two types of plates: continental and oceanic, of which the latter is much lighter .

The Indian plate and Asian plate are convergent and both continental. That means they generally just smash into each other, i.o.w. both crumbling. If one of them was oceanic, say Asia and the Pacific, the oceanic one would sink under the continental one, creating a valley or (Mariana) trench.

2

JoHeWe t1_izg4qb3 wrote

There are instances where starting the Y-axis not at zero is okay. I'm bad at examples, but zero is used as a baseline. Which means that it would be better to start the Y-axis at another value, it being similar to the baseline.

An example might be the concentration of something, like CO2 molecules in the atmosphere. It is impossible and irrelevant to get to 0. Besides, it's not about the absolute values but the relative values.

But in general, yeah, it is misleading.

84