Title: 1975 Kinnaur earthquake
Content:  The state of Himachal Pradesh lies towards the southern boundary of the Himalayan mountain belt, which was formed by the collision between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The mountain building that formed the Himalayas is an example of thrust tectonics and is dominated by thrust faulting. There is however, a significant amount of extension along the length of the mountain belt, possibly related to its arcuate form, with the extension accommodating the bulging out of the frontal part of the Himalayas. However, the faulting in the NW Himalayas demonstrates west–east extension, which is at a fairly high angle to the 
Title: Fold mountains
Content:  Fold mountains are formed by the effects of folding on layers within the upper part of the Earth's crust. Before the development of the theory of plate tectonics and before the internal architecture of thrust belts became well understood, the term was used to describe most mountain belts, e.g. the Himalayas. The term is still fairly common in the literature of physical geography but has otherwise fallen out of use.
Title: Geology of Himachal Pradesh
Content:  The elevation of Himachal Pradesh increases from SW to NE, and the orogenic materials making up this area also vary in the same direction. There are 5 major tectonic units in the form of fault-bounded NW-SE trending belts (Fig. 2). From SW to NE they are named the Indo-Gangetic Plain, Sub-Himalayan Sequence, Lesser Himalayan Sequence, Greater Himalayan Crystalline complex and Tethyan Himalayan Sequence (Fig. 2, 3). The Indo-Gangetic Plain represents a recent, active foreland basin which comprises alluvial sediments derived from the Himalaya. The Sub-Himalayan Sequence mainly represents sediments deposited in the foreland basin during Miocene time. The Lesser Himalayan Sequence is a unit emplaced before the mountain-building processes. The Greater Himalayan Crystalline complex represents a high-grade unit moved towards SW from the hinterland. The Tethyan Himalayan Sequence represents strata deposited in the former passive margin in the Northern edge of Indian plate.
Title: Geology of Himachal Pradesh
Content:   The geology of Himachal Pradesh is dominated by Precambrian rocks that were assembled and deformed during the India-Asia collision and the subsequent Himalayan orogeny. The Northern Indian State Himachal Pradesh is located in the Western Himalaya (Fig. 1). It has a rugged terrain, with elevation ranging from 320m to 6975m. Rock materials in the region are largely from the Indian craton, and their ages range from the Paleoproterozoic to the present day. It is generally agreed that the Indian craton collided with Asia 50-60 million years ago (Ma). Rock sequences were thrust and folded immensely during the collision. The area has also been shaped by focused orographic precipitation, glaciation and rapid erosion.
Title: Main Central Thrust
Content: 1) the Lesser Himalayan Sequence, which is mainly composed of low-grade Proterozoic metasediments to unmetamorphosed rocks, fringed by the Main Boundary Thrust and the Main Central Thrust; ; 2) the Greater Himalayan Crystalline complex, which is mainly composed by high-grade gneiss and migmatite, fringed below by the Main Central Thrust and the South Tibetan Detachment; and ; 3) the Tethyan Himalayan Sequence, mainly composed by Proterozoic to Eocene sediments, deformed in a Paleogene fold-thrust belt, fringed below by the South Tibetan Detachment. The Himalayan mountain belt was produced by the collision of the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. It is structurally dominated by three north-dipping, fault-bound geological units stacked on each other. The major faults are South Tibetan Detachment, the Main Central Thrust, the Main Boundary Thrust and the Main Frontal Thrust. These units (figure 1), from south to north, are: 
Title: Geology of Himachal Pradesh
Content:  The South Tibet detachment lies between the Greater Himalayan Crystalline complex and the Tethyan Himalayan Sequence (Fig. 3). Alternating top-to-southeast and top-to-northwest shear directions have been identified by various ductile shear fabrics along the South Tibet Detachment. It has been suggested that in Himachal Pradesh, the South Tibet detachment is folded and overturned with the Phojal Anticline and joins the Main Central thrust at the southwest side. While some believe the South Tibet Detachment joins the Main Central thrust down-dip, or the two faults being parallel to each other (Fig.6).
Title: Geology of the Himalaya
Content:  The geology of the Himalayas is a record of the most dramatic and visible creations of the immense mountain range formed by plate tectonic forces and sculpted by weathering and erosion. The Himalayas, which stretch over 2400 km between the Namcha Barwa syntaxis at the eastern end of the mountain range and the Nanga Parbat syntaxis at the western end, are the result of an ongoing orogeny — the collision of the continental crust of two tectonic plates namely the Indian Plate thrusting into the Eurasian Plate. The Himalaya-Tibet region supplies fresh water for more than one-fifth of the world population, and accounts for a quarter of the global sedimentary budget. Topographically, the belt has many superlatives: the highest rate 
Title: Palmyra fold belt
Content:  The Palmyra fold belt forms fold mountains found mostly in Syria. The mountains are formed due to thrusting together of Aleppo plateau in the north and Rubtah uplift in the south. This is according to the modern theory of plate tectonics. Similar view of the feature from the geosyncline theory can be taken where Palmyra can be viewed as Median mass between the two forelands of Aleppo foreland in the north and Rubtah foreland in the south.
Title: Mountain
Content:  There are three main types of mountains: volcanic, fold, and block. All three types are formed from plate tectonics: when portions of the Earth's crust move, crumple, and dive. Compressional forces, isostatic uplift and intrusion of igneous matter forces surface rock upward, creating a landform higher than the surrounding features. The height of the feature makes it either a hill or, if higher and steeper, a mountain. Major mountains tend to occur in long linear arcs, indicating tectonic plate boundaries and activity.
Title: Thick-skinned deformation
Content: Himalayan Mountains - The Himalayas of Tibet are at the location of a continental collision between the Indian and Asian continents and contains many examples of thick-skinned deformation. ; Andes Mountains - The Andes of South America are at the location of an ancient subduction zone and are formed by thick-skinned deformation. 

Question: what tectonic setting is responsible for the folded mountains of pennsylvania and the high himalaya?
Answer: a convergent plate boundary.