Hello Class,
I travelled to the Indian Plate, south of
the Eurasian plate, this plate has taken roughly 40 to 50 million years to form
the Himalayan mountain range. This plate is located in between India, and China
with Nepal in the middle. The Indian plate use to be about 7000 km away from
the Asian continent. Every century the Indian continent moved 9 meters until it
finally collided with Asia. This began from 200 million years ago when the
super continent Pangea began breaking apart and transformed into the lands we
see today. When both collided, it created the famous mountain range we know
today the Himalayans. The formations from the tectonic plates was based from
compression, this type of tectonic plate conversion causes the rocks to be
presses together. The rocks at the top will begin to push up and up bring mountain
ranges. Rocks that are in the depths of the plates will compress and fold to
either anticline or syncline. For this conversion the plates have made an
anticline fold, the Himalayan mountains were created through the up folding
where the fold goes upward. The syncline folds on the Indian and Eurasian plate
created valleys in between the ranges. Overall, folding dominates the
structural style of this conversion. The faults are in a reverse which creates
the compression of the rocks. The rock being deposited here is sandstone.
The Himalayas: Two continents collide. (2015). Received From: https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/himalaya.html
The Himalayas. (2011). Received From: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/the-himalayas-himalayas-facts/6341/
Respectfully,
Derek
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