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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