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8/17/2019 The Himalayas Formation
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THE GREAT HIMALAYAS(DISASTER MANAGEMENT)
SUBMITTED BY:ANJALI KUMARI12644, VI SEM
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The Himalaya Range is the highest mountainchain of the world. It have four of themountainswhose height exceed 8000 meters.
The Himalaya Range is located in Asia, and itStretches y four countries! "utan, India,#e$aland %hina.
The formation of The Himalaya Range isa result of a continental collision etweenthe Indo&Australian 'late and the(urasian 'late. An interesting information aoutHimalayas is that than)s to the
movement of the $late tectonics thismountain chain rising its height y aout *mm $er years.
+R-ATI# + HI-AA/AS!
ara)orum "atholith
Trans&Himalayan "atholithTethyan sedimentary roc)s-iocene granite
%entral %rystallinesower Himalaya
uter crystalline )li$$enSiwali) 1 SuHimalaya2
T rans&Himalay
Higher Himala
ower Himala
RA#3(S + HI-AA/S
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when two continental $lates are moving towards each other together and areforming fold mountain ranges an exam$le
of this is the Himalayas ranges.
As you can see on the diagrams elow .
Himalaya &fold mountai
4hen 5 $late run in to each other,They will do one of these&
6. If one $late is heavier than the other, it will sin) elow the other $late.
5 . If oth $lates have the same density, they will $ush against oneanother resulting is +7(7-#TAI# such as HI-AA/A9
TH( HI-AA/AS ,are of same dens
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• The Indo&Australian 'late is sill moving ataout :; mm $er year<
• This in turn causes the Himalayas to rise ataout * mm $er year
•
This may not seem much, ut it still meansthat the Himalayas is geologically active.• The movement ma)es the region seismically
active leading to the occasional earth=ua)e
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%#TI#(#TA 7RI+T !
• a single continent $angaea sorrounded y asingle ocean $anthalasa
• 500 million years ago $angaea ro)e intotwo ma>or landmasses&an)ara land andgondwana land
• india was a $art of the gondwana landlocated in the southern hemis$here
• continents started moving in di?erentdirections
• force&tidal force $olar @eeing force