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Geology and Geography of Mt. Kailash - Ashtapad and Surroundings
Mayur B. Desai and Ajit Shah
Geological Background of Himalaya The slides and material in this article are taken from a presentation that was made at Jain Center of America, New York in 2010. The slides describe generalized historic geological and climatological forces that existed at the present day Mt. Kailash and its surroundings. More detailed scientific discussions on these topics are presented in various research papers and excerpts presented within Granth II. The followings slides are for the benefit of non-scientific community who will review this Granth.
South face of Kailash
The drifting continental masses creating new crusts and oceans have taken place right from the inception of Earth's origin in our solar system, primarily from the result of flowing molten rock from below the earth's crust for dissipation of internal heat, gravitational forces and earth's rotation as shown in Figure-1. Typical plate (crustal) movements are in the range of 10-40 mm per year. During this process, collision between continents and drifting between them created huge amounts of volcanism resulting in the formation of new crusts and earthquakes. The mega continental drifting process started since 250 million years, and still continuing. One of the Ref. Vol. XI Ch. 79 J Pg. 4939-4957
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