<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/eaf9bbc3-fd3c-4ae9-974d-e707058fae1a/3FD09DD2-5A28-4D43-AAAB-490FD20D5775/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ppg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/360" href="http://ppg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/360" style="font-size: 11px;">ppg.sagepub.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ppg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/360"><H2> Emergence and evolution of Himalaya: reconstructing history in the light of recent studies </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ppg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/360"><NOBR>K. S. Valdiya</NOBR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ppg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/360"> India collided with mainland Asia at 65 Ma. The pressure rose<SUP> </SUP>to 9-11 kbar in the collision zone. As the Indian lithosphere<SUP> </SUP>bent down and its upper crust buckled up as an upwarp in the<SUP> </SUP>period 35-45 Ma, the southern margin of Asia became the water-divide<SUP> </SUP>of the Himalayan rivers.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ppg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/360">The sea retreated from<SUP> </SUP>the Himalayan province by the early Miocene, even as the crust<SUP> </SUP>broke up along faults 20-22 million years ago.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ppg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/360">ivers carried detritus generated by the denudation of the fast<SUP> </SUP>emerging Himalaya and deposited it in the foreland basin which<SUP> </SUP>turned fluvial around 23 Ma.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ppg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/360">The Himadri then became high enough to cause<SUP> </SUP>disruption of wind circulation, culminating in the onset of<SUP> </SUP>monsoon. The climate change that followed caused migration of<SUP> </SUP>a variety of quadrupeds from Africa and Eurasia, bringing about<SUP> </SUP>considerable faunal turnovers in the Siwalik life.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3FD09DD2-5A28-4D43-AAAB-490FD20D5775/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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