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 THE GREAT HIMALAYAS(DISASTER MANAGEMENT)

SUBMITTED BY:ANJALI KUMARI12644, VI SEM

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The Himalaya Range is the highest mountainchain of the world. It have four of themountainswhose height exceed 8000 meters.

The Himalaya Range is located in Asia, and itStretches y four countries! "utan, India,#e$aland %hina.

The formation of The Himalaya Range isa result of a continental collision etweenthe Indo&Australian 'late and the(urasian 'late. An interesting information aoutHimalayas is that than)s to the

movement of the $late tectonics thismountain chain rising its height y aout  *mm $er years.

+R-ATI# + HI-AA/AS!

ara)orum "atholith

Trans&Himalayan "atholithTethyan sedimentary roc)s-iocene granite

%entral %rystallinesower Himalaya

uter crystalline )li$$enSiwali) 1 SuHimalaya2

T rans&Himalay 

Higher Himala

ower Himala

RA#3(S + HI-AA/S

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 when two continental $lates are moving towards each other together and areforming fold mountain ranges an exam$le

 of this is the Himalayas ranges.

 As you can see on the diagrams elow .

Himalaya &fold mountai 

4hen 5 $late run in to each other,They will do one of these&

6. If one $late is heavier than the other, it will sin) elow the other  $late.

5 . If oth $lates have the same density, they will $ush against oneanother resulting is +7(7-#TAI# such as HI-AA/A9

TH( HI-AA/AS ,are of same dens

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• The Indo&Australian 'late is sill moving ataout :; mm $er year<

• This in turn causes the Himalayas to rise ataout * mm $er year 

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This may not seem much, ut it still meansthat the Himalayas is geologically active.• The movement ma)es the region seismically

active leading to the occasional earth=ua)e

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%#TI#(#TA 7RI+T !

• a single continent $angaea sorrounded y asingle ocean $anthalasa

• 500 million years ago $angaea ro)e intotwo ma>or landmasses&an)ara land andgondwana land 

• india was a $art of the gondwana landlocated in the southern hemis$here

• continents started moving in di?erentdirections

• force&tidal force $olar @eeing force