GK
INDIAN GEOGRAPHY
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Faulting of the earths crust
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Accumulation of Loess Deposits
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Folding of Geosyncline name Tethys
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Folding of earths crust
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to this theory, the Himalayas were formed from a great geosyncline called the Tethys Sea. The Tethys Sea lied between the Eurasian and the Indo-Australian plate. The thick pile of sediments in the Tethys Sea were subjected to constant compression.
Detailed explanation-2: -A vast ocean, called the Tethys Ocean, lay south of Europe and Asia and north of Africa, Arabia, and India. Much of the rock that now forms the mountain system, which includes the Alps and the Himalayas was deposited on the margins of the Tethys Ocean.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tethys Himalaya (TH) The Tethys Himalaya is an approximately 100-km-wide synclinorium formed by strongly folded and imbricated, weakly metamorphosed sedimentary series. Several nappes, termed the “North Himalayan Nappes", have also been described within this unit.