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Himalaya:
The name of the range derives from the Sanskrit Himalaya (हिमालय) abode of the snow, from him (हिम' snow) and a-laya(आलय receptacle, dwelling). They are known as the "Himalaya mountain", usually shortened to the "Himalayas" formerly, they were described in singular as the Himalaya. This was also previously transcribed as Himmaleh, as in Emily Dickinson's poetry and Henry David Thoreau's essays.
History:
The history of forming Himalaya-
Himalaya,. The land of the God. It devides the Tibetan plateau, from the great Indian subcontinent. It all started 225 million years ago, in geologic time the pangea, which means" all lands" that was a super continent formed a single landmass on earth. Here india was a large island , and situated off the Australian coast, seprated from asia by the tethlys Ocean. The pangea started breaking up around 200 million years ago, and india started to drift northward, toward Asia around 80 million years ago india was still moving toward the Asian continent, at a speed of around 9 to 16cm per year. The northward drift of Indian continental plate slowed down to 6cm per year from around 40 million years ago. This slow down was interpreted as the beginning of the collision between the European and continental plates, the start of the Himalaya uplift, and the disappearance of the tethys Ocean. The drifting of the indian continental plate against the European plate caused the latter, to crumple and buckle above the former plate, the folding and faulting caused by the compressional forces of the continental crust, caused it to thicken, pushing up the Himalayas, and the Tibetan plateau. Today, the indian plate continues to driven horizontally, at the Tibetan plateau, which forces the plateau to continue to move upwards. The indian plate is still moving at 67 mm per year, and over the next 10 million years it will travel about 1500 km into Asia. About 20 mm per year of the India-Asia convergence is absorbed by thrusting, along the Himalaya southern front . This leads to the Himalayas raising by about 5 mm per year, making them geographically active. The movement of the Indian plate into the Asian plate also makes this region seismically active, leading to earthquakes from time to time.
The Himalaya range is one of the longest mountain ranges on the planet, and consist mostly of lifted sendimentary and metamorphic rock According to the morden theory of plate tectonics, its formation is a result of a continental collision, along the convergent boundary, between the indo Australian plate and the European plate.
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