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The Himalaya Mountains were formed during the Tertiary continent-continent collision between India and Asia and contain the tallest mountains, as well as those exhibiting the greatest vertical relief over short distances, in the world. The range extends for more than 1,800 miles (3,000 km) from the Kara-koram near Kabul, Afghanistan, past Lhasa, Tibet, to Arunachal Pradesh in the remote Assam Province of India. Ten of the world's 14 peaks that rise to more than 26,000 feet (8,000 m) are located in the Himalayas, including Mount Everest, 29,035 feet (8,850 m), Nanga Parbat, 26,650 feet (8,123 m), and Namche Barwa, 25,440 feet (7,754 m). The rivers that drain the Himalayas exhibit some of the highest sediment outputs in the world, including the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra. The Indo-Gangetic Plain, on the southern side of the Himalayas, is a foreland basin filled by sediments eroded from the mountains and deposited on Precambrian and Gondwanan rocks of peninsular India. The northern margin of the Himalayas is marked by the world's highest and largest uplifted plateau, the Tibetan Plateau.
The Himalayas is one of the youngest mountain ranges in the world but has a long and complicated history best understood in the context of five main structural and tectonic units within the ranges. The Subhimalaya includes the Neogene Siwalik molasse, bounded on the south by the Main Frontal Thrust that places the Siwalik molasse over the Indo-Gan-getic Plain. The Lower or Subhimalaya is thrust over the Subhimalaya along the Main Boundary Thrust, and consists mainly of deformed thrust sheets derived from the northern margin of the Indian shield. The High Himalaya is a large area of crystalline basement rocks, thrust over the Subhimalaya along the Main Central Thrust. Farther north, the High Himalaya sedimentary series or Tibetan Himalaya consists of sedimentary rocks deposited on the crystalline
The Himalaya Mountains were formed during the Tertiary continent-continent collision between India and Asia and contain the tallest mountains, as well as those exhibiting the greatest vertical relief over short distances, in the world. The range extends for more than 1,800 miles (3,000 km) from the Kara-koram near Kabul, Afghanistan, past Lhasa, Tibet, to Arunachal Pradesh in the remote Assam Province of India. Ten of the world's 14 peaks that rise to more than 26,000 feet (8,000 m) are located in the Himalayas, including Mount Everest, 29,035 feet (8,850 m), Nanga Parbat, 26,650 feet (8,123 m), and Namche Barwa, 25,440 feet (7,754 m). The rivers that drain the Himalayas exhibit some of the highest sediment outputs in the world, including the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra. The Indo-Gangetic Plain, on the southern side of the Himalayas, is a foreland basin filled by sediments eroded from the mountains and deposited on Precambrian and Gondwanan rocks of peninsular India. The northern margin of the Himalayas is marked by the world's highest and largest uplifted plateau, the Tibetan Plateau.
The Himalayas is one of the youngest mountain ranges in the world but has a long and complicated history best understood in the context of five main structural and tectonic units within the ranges. The Subhimalaya includes the Neogene Siwalik molasse, bounded on the south by the Main Frontal Thrust that places the Siwalik molasse over the Indo-Gan-getic Plain. The Lower or Subhimalaya is thrust over the Subhimalaya along the Main Boundary Thrust, and consists mainly of deformed thrust sheets derived from the northern margin of the Indian shield. The High Himalaya is a large area of crystalline basement rocks, thrust over the Subhimalaya along the Main Central Thrust. Farther north, the High Himalaya sedimentary series or Tibetan Himalaya consists of sedimentary rocks deposited on the crystalline
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