Question

Explain the formation of himalyas?

Answer 1

*The oldest landmass was a part of the Gondwana Land, it included India, South Africa,  Australia, South America and Antartica as one single landmass.

*The convectional currents split the crust into a number of pieces, thus leading to the drifting of the Indo -Australian plate after being separated from the Gondwana land towards the north.

*The northward drift resulted in the collision of the Indo - Australian plate with the much larger Eurasian plate.

*Due to this collision, the sedimentary rocks which were accumulated in the geosyncline known as The Tethys were folded to form a mountain system of the western Asia and Himalayas. These were the Himalayas.