Mike Searle On The Mountain Ranges Of Central Asia Geology Bites podcast

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Mike Searle on the Mountain Ranges of Central Asia

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The Himalaya are just one, albeit the longest and highest, of several mountain ranges between India and Central Asia. By world standards these are massive ranges with some of the highest peaks on the planet. The Karakoram boasts four of the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, and the Hindu Kush, the Pamir, the Kunlun Shan, and the Tien Shan each have many peaks above 7,000 meters. No mountain ranges outside this region have such high mountains. Yet we seldom hear much about these ranges.

In the podcast, Mike Searle describes the origin and geology of six central Asian ranges and how they relate to the Himalaya and the collision of the India with Asia. India continues to plow into Asia to this day. How is this movement accomodated? Searle explains the extrusion and crustal shortening models that have been proposed and describes the detailed mapping in the field in northern India he and his colleagues conducted that showed that both mechanisms are operating.

Searle is Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford.

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