FOLD MOUNTAINS

Location: India to Tibet, China
Name: the Himalayas

Pakistan-India-Nepal-China-Bhutan

HISTORY: Geologically, the origin of the Himalayas is the imapct of the Indian tectonic plate travelling northward at 15 cm per year to impact the Eurasian continent, with first contact about 70 million years ago, and with movement continuing today. The formation of the Himalayan arc peaks eventually resulted from this, since the lighter rock of the seabeds of that time were easily uplifted into mountains. An often-cited fact used to illustrate this process is that the summit of Mount Everest is made of marine limestone.

CURRENTLY: The Himalaya is the world's largest range. Its peak is of 8,000 meters, which is approximately 26,000 feet. There are 14 such peaks of Himalayas and hundreds of summits, which are around 23,000 feet high. The mountain range stretches 1,700 miles across an area between Assam and Kashmir. The east is guarded Namche Barwa while the west is guarded by the splendid Nanga Parbat. There are travel tour guides in the Himalayas so that you can explore the amazing Himalayas close-up. There are tribes living near Himalayas and different wildlife can be found.

EXTRA INFO: The Himalayas are mainly young folded mountains. It extends from the west to the east for about 2,500 km in a curve from the Pamit Knot in the northwest to the valley of the Brahmaputra River in the east. The width of the Himalayas is of 100-400 km. The Himalayas range covers an area of 612,021 square km. The Himalaya passes through 5 nations: India, Pakistan, China, Bhutan and Nepal. In India it stretches across 5 states: Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim and in China it is Tibet. The Himalayas is also the origin or the source of world's two important river systems: the Indus Basin and the Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin.

From south to north the Himalayas are divided into different parallel ranges:
-Lower Himalayas with an average height of 3,700 m
-Sub Himalayas with an average height of 900-1,200 m. It is the youngest of the three ranges. It is mainly made up of eroded matter from the rising Himalaya.
-The Great Himalayas, which is a single range and the oldest of the three ranges with a height above 6,000 m including Mount Everest, K2 and Kanchenjunga and 9 of the 14 highest peaks in the world.
-Tibetan Himalayas, the Tibet Plateau is known as the Roof of the World with an average height of 4,000-45,900 m. Even the Karakorum Range in the northwest is also considered as a part of the Himalayan Range.

Credits:
-www.google.com
-http://www.himalaya2000.com/himalayan-facts/himalayan-travel-guide.html
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayas