...Stop
Press
Bigtime crumpling of the crust in the mountains of Tibet
...Stop
Press
Bigtime crumpling of the crust in the mountains of Tibet
| "Doesn't look crumpled to
me..."
"No? ... Obviously you haven't been reading the right books, ..Besides ..everybody knows the Himalyas are crumpled to Kingdom Come because India's colliding with Asia. What's wrong with *you*? "Yeah, .. you, ..and I'd rather believe the hard work of real researchers any day, ...than what you say... or even the evidence of my own eyes." |
Fig.1. Mount Kailash - the Holy mountain of Tibet. Eyes-down and bums-up, a flock of sheep safely graze, tended with loving pastoral care lest they succumb to temptation and gaze on the Holy Mountain - which like all other mountains in Tibet tossed high by the momentum of colliding plates is crumpled to buggery, at the mention of which the geroge on the far right of the party, ever a rebel, can be seen to lift its head and risk excommunication.
Fig.2. Nepal, the Kali Gandaki Valley, and peneplanation by crustal crumpling due to plate collision. Separated from the lower terrane to the south by the fault bounding the southern side of the east-west range, the higher terrane to the north provides a powerful example of uplift by strike-slip faulting due to the collision of the Indian Plate against the buttress of Asia. Crustal crumpling (south to north in the picture), which affects all the high peaks of the Himalayas and Tibet (1, 2, 3, ) is spectacularly seen in the etched layers of Annapurna which lies on the ridge just to the left of the arcuate north-south rift of the Kalivali.
Fig.1. Aerial view of Mount Everest and surrounding peaks. Thrust high by the collision of the Indian Plate the peaks of the highest mountains of the world are the type area in the world for crustal crumpling by plate collision. (1, 2, )Credit "Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center." See http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov , Part of Picture TS066-208-25, Adaption Andrées de Ruiter www.nepal-dia.de Red -Mountains: 1 Pokhalde 5794m ; 2 Chukung Ri; 3 Imja Tse ( Island Peak) 6173 m; 4 Kalar Pattar 5554 m; 5 Pumori 7165 m; 6 Nuptse 7861 m; 7 Lhotse shar 8386 m; 8 Lhotse 8501 m; 9 Everest Südgipfel / south peak 8743 m, 10 Everest 8848 m, 11 bei Peak 7583 m.
Yellow :places: 1 Gorak shep; 2 EBC green: cols: 1 Kongma La 5535 m; 2 Imja Tse north col 5695 m; 3 Everest south col 7906 m; 4 Everest north col 7066 m
| "I'd rather believe
all those other accomplished geologists who have written screeds and screeds
and had it peer reviewed - rather than believe the evidence of my
own eyes"
"To
be fair (to plumes), however, they have served geologists well for over
30 years. In 2002 several hundred papers about them are listed by
the Science Citation Index, so the subject is paying a lot of mortgages.
The assume-a-plume approach has also relieved researchers of the hard work
of thinking up new theories – a welcome relief in these days when we are
all expected to publish six papers a year or else. However, the time may
have come to retire plumes on a full pension and make way for younger theories
– or are they really older ones recycled?"
|