INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Indian plate Himalaya was a low-lying continental margin, but started to shorten and uplift after the emplacement of ophiolites (slabs of oceanic rocks emplaced onto continental margins) during the Late Cretaceous (65 million years ago).

Detailed explanation-2: -This immense mountain range began to form between 40 and 50 million years ago, when two large landmasses, India and Eurasia, driven by plate movement, collided.

Detailed explanation-3: -These so-called “abyssal hills” record a sudden increase in crustal stress, dating the birth of the Himalayan Mountain Range to 47 million years ago, researchers said.

Detailed explanation-4: -The initial mountain building process started about seventy million years ago (or the Upper Cretaceous period) when the two land masses (or plates) began to collide with each other. As a result, the already shallow seabed rapidly folded folded and was raised into longitudinal ridges and valleys.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Himalayan orogen is the product of the convergence following the collision of the Indian and Eurasian continents. Recent work provides evidence that this collision initiated at 58–61 Ma (DeCelles et al., 2014; Orme et al., 2015).