Everest was born after India collided with rest of Asia

India Today Online  Washington, March 24, 2014 | UPDATED 13:50 IST

 

In this 2013 file photo, a team of climbers, including 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura, stand on the summit of Mount Everest. Reuters

If you knew how the Mount Everest came about, you would look at your toothpaste with more respect. Researchers say the Mt. Everest and the Himalayas came into being after the Asian landmass was squeezed like a tube of toothpaste.A report published in New Scientist says the Indian sub-continent collided with Eurasia, China and South-East Asia leading to the birth of the mountain range.
Louis Moresi of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and his team built a computer model which helped explain the happenings after the collision of continents.
The computer model showed that when one continent bearing thick or buoyant crust blocks a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate, the other gets squeezed and folds around the blockage, and in the process creates a complex array of geophysical features.

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