Himalayan migration northward found to be result of tectonic lift
Friday, August 19, 2016 - 09:01
in Earth & Climate
A trio of researchers has found evidence to suggest that a very large gorge in an eastern part of the Himalayas is moving slowly northward due to pressure from tectonic lift. In their paper published in the journal Science, Georgina King and Frédéric Herman with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and Benny Guralnik with Wageningen University in The Netherlands describe how they used a new type of technology to measure the age of minerals beneath the surface in the area to determine how rapidly rock has been moving toward the surface.