Bill Kidd on the hill above Khampa Dzong (known as Gamba by the current occupiers), southern Tibet. View to the west to southwest of the crest of the Himalaya, including Everest and Makalu, and the northern end of the Kanchenjunga massif. Paleocene-Eocene limestones in the foreground are some of the youngest strata of the former Indian passive continental margin, whose deposition just predates the start of the India-Asia continental collision.
For details on the geology of this belt of rocks, and the significance of a narrow constraint on the time when the collision began, see: Zhu B., W.S.F. Kidd, D.B. Rowley, B.S. Currie, N. Shafique, 2005. Age of initiation of the India-Asia collision in the east-central Himalaya. J. Geol., 113, 265–285. PDF file
 

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