Random things that I want to share
By Aparna Sen
@Dreamerby (10111)
Calcutta, India
December 9, 2020 4:24am CST
I know it's a bit random. When I first got to know about this, my first instinct was to share it with you all. I am reading the Puffin History of India.
I just got to know that the snow-capped Himalayas were actually the water-borne areas of The Tethys Sea. It was the topology of some millions of years back when the plates hadn't divided into 7 continents.
I will keep sharing such random things. Hope you like it. Let me know whether you liked this or not
If you have something random to share, go ahead.
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6 responses
@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
9 Dec 20
It is rather amazing to realise that we all live on land which has floated around on the liquid magma of the Earth's interior and changed its position dramatically and still is to this day!
India was once a large island off the coast of Australia but drifted northwards and crashed into Asia, pushing up the Himalayas just as if they were the rumpled part of a blanket and burying the salt from the waters of the Tethys ocean. India is still crashing into Asia and the Himalayas are still rising at more than 1 cm per year!
An online resource from the Geological Society, outlining the three types of plate boundary and the activity that characterises them.
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@Dreamerby (10111)
• Calcutta, India
9 Dec 20
Yeah. The plate with which India was attached before is Gondwana Island.
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
11 Dec 20
Thank you for sharing the information. We should be lucky to be alive on this earth and not affected on the geological movements on the lands.
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@Dreamerby (10111)
• Calcutta, India
16 Dec 20
I will try to share these often then.
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