How Were the Himalayas Created?
“On the subject of oil’s creation, you’ll find that the idea it was created by dinosaurs is a common fallacy and or myth/urban legend.” === It was a morph from oil being created at the time of dinosaurs. Actually, I don’t believe even the biotic crowd has their consensus of where petro products derive… === “As for ‘how did it get so deep’ obviously you have not heard of plate tectonics.” === It was tongue in cheek. Regardless whether biotic or abiotic, sub-surface geology would still rule.
The Himalayas, in Pakistan, India, Nepal, and China, is the world’s tallest mountain range. It contains Mt. Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, which rises 8,848 meters (29,029 ft) above sea level, and nine other peaks over 8,000 meters (26,246 ft) in height, called the Eight Thousanders. The Himalayas outclass every other mountain range in the world — the tallest mountain outside Asia, Aconcagua in the Andes, is only 6,962 meters (22,841 ft) tall. The Himalayan range is also the world’s largest concentration of glaciers outside the polar regions. Though the Himalayas are the world’s tallest mountains, they are also among the youngest mountain ranges on the planet, with the substantial growth occurring in just the last million years. The Himalayas began growing about 50 million years ago when the Indian subcontinent, which used to be an island continent beneath Eurasia, slammed into the Eurasian continent due to continental drift. Prior to this, the Indian plate was one of the fast
