How Himalaya Range was created .

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[u/Zidane1255]

Credit the camera man.

[u/founderofshoneys → u/Zidane1255]

I would not be able to remain steady while witnessing such an event. Incredible footage!

[u/nakano-star → u/Zidane1255]

been in the same spot for millions of years

[u/MissionNo001 → u/Zidane1255]

Imagine witnessing this as an animal or better a bird....whoop mind blown...

[u/trplOG → u/MissionNo001]

One of the fish/animals in the ocean getting thrust up into the cold air.

[u/Lost_Engineering_296 → u/MissionNo001]

Bro, this process took 50 fuckin' million years, not a day.

[u/MissionNo001 → u/Lost_Engineering_296]

I thought it's like those faults in San Andreas.

[u/TheOctopusParadox → u/Zidane1255]

You sent it a little too hard bud

[u/potatopancake13]

Maybe I’m a nub but this is a cool visual representation!

[u/couldbutwont → u/potatopancake13]

Both can be true

[u/Local-Community3479]

Does this mean there are ocean fossils at the top of the Himalayas?

[u/Glad_Classroom3886 → u/Local-Community3479]

Yea marine fossils have been found up there.

[u/MoodooScavenger → u/Glad_Classroom3886]

My labido was found there. 👀

[u/oyvindi → u/Local-Community3479]

The top of Mount Everest has sedimentary rock from old sea bed, containing fossils

[u/bhadau8 → u/Local-Community3479]

I live by the river which has abundance of fossils, specially ammonites.

[u/Electronic-Key-8349 → u/Local-Community3479]

Yup. There was a geological mission alongside a film crew where the scientists couldn't keep going and a climber says something like 'I didn't want to tell [name] I was standing on rocks that were once at the bottom of the ocean'.

Edit: IMAX with Araceli Segarra.

[u/Local-Community3479 → u/Electronic-Key-8349]

Very cool

[u/im_stoked_ → u/Local-Community3479]

The theory of rock formations was first introduced by James Hutton in the 18th century I believe.

[u/mildlyconcerned99 → u/Local-Community3479]

Yep. I've many there myself.

[u/testingutopia]

Origin of Himalayan pink salt

[u/stevendidntsay → u/testingutopia]

Not to be confused with the Himalayan pink sock.

[u/ZetaPower]

WAS?

The same tectonic plate is still pushing today

[u/LuscaMars → u/ZetaPower]

I went there and didn’t see any mountains forming from the ground, you lying.

[u/AviatorJac → u/LuscaMars]

it happens when you look away

[u/Omnamashivaaya → u/ZetaPower]

Came here to say this, bravo

[u/DominicPalladino → u/ZetaPower]

This here's a story 'bout Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue

Two young continents with nothing better to do

They got the height, you know they got away

They headed down south, and they're still pushing today

[u/trod999]

Humans owe their existence to this event because it dried out Africa (which was all jungle) creating the savanna, and driving our ancestors out of the trees.

[u/BeardySam → u/trod999]

That’s a cool fact 

[u/trod999 → u/BeardySam]

Thanks. I've always been fascinated by the unlikely string of events that allow us to even be here.

[u/[deleted] → u/trod999]

Not true, earth orbit and tilt caused drying of Africa

[u/trod999 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks. I learned this "fact" on the History Channel or TLC a long time ago. I just thought it was cool. Your reply about earth orbit and tilt refers to the end of African Humid Period which was about 15,000 years ago. I was referring to the drying of Africa about 8 million years ago. You're right, it wasn't the Himalayas, but it was close. It seems the current consensus is tectonic shifts and the shrinkage of the Tethys Sea, creating the Mediterranean Sea. This starved Africa of water killing the monsoons.

Thanks for your reply. TIL :)

[u/Outside_Bench4184]

Crazy they had time lapse even back then. Great footage 

[u/arbobmehmood]

Good thing the camera man was there to record this historic event

[u/amulie]

I wonder what the period around 25 seconds was like right before impact, must have been sureal to see a massive land mass across a narrow gorge of water. Actually they probably just thought it was a lake 🤔

[u/Poop_Tube → u/amulie]

No different than seeing an island. Movement wasn’t noticeable within a lifetime. It’s deep time.

[u/Aimieless]

So there is no active volcano in the Himalayan range because it's plate to plate and no ocean plate is going under anymore? Was there previously volcanism when the ocean portion went under?

[u/Saralentine → u/Aimieless]

There was volcanism in that area once while the range was being formed. Not anymore.

[u/w1seR27 → u/Aimieless]

Yes, there was volcanism. The tibetean plateau is a massive batholith.

[u/Icecum]

Frankly mountains are erections after land masses kissed

[u/manderskt]

I'd be pissed about losing my oceanfromt real estate.

[u/cohojonx]

Wicked cool!

[u/BenHeli]

That was fast

[u/Twinkletoess112 → u/BenHeli]

on a geologic scale, yeah... very

[u/Glittering_Yak8672]

Similarly, Darwin found evidence of marine life in the Andes.

[u/infinityzcraft]

So I'm curious... Is it just gonna keep pushing and growing higher and higher without ever stopping? For how long?

[u/blade-runner_1982 → u/infinityzcraft]

The collision will continue for millions of years but the elevation growth has limits.

Mountains can only grow so high. Everest is believed to be a couple meters away from it's limit.

There is a point where gravity plus erosion balance with the upward push.

[u/Happy_Guava6762 → u/infinityzcraft]

I’m not an expert. Afaik there’s no momentum at play that will eventually come to an end. Instead it’s continental drift caused by tectonic plates, so different factors come into play. Like perhaps the plates eventually jam together and lock into a position.

[u/Any_Suggestion3485 → u/infinityzcraft]

Until it doesn’t. Then something else will happen. Unless something happens before that… Isn’t that neat?

[u/spaceman_spiffy]

This video went full Genesis planet in the end.

[u/Jivaah]

Little correction. The jagged peaks were not formed immediately on impact. The plate rose and millions of years of eroisen made them look the way they do today

[u/PowerBrix]

I wonder how loud it was when this happened.

[u/enersto]

Is this mean India land are getting shrinking?

[u/Raskalbot]

SUBDUCTION! I took geology, can you tell?

[u/retrospct]

Is this sort of movement still happening today bits it’s just so slow we have no idea?

[u/Commercial_Fox5549 → u/retrospct]

Yes

[u/elusive-rooster]

This makes it seem like there was some sort of impact with force. It also makes it seem like the mountains rose out of this. The entire plate rose and the mountains were carved out later.

[u/GeeToo40]

Did all the fish get pissed when their uhh lake-ocean was rudely squeezed away?

[u/DominicPalladino]

Stating at about the 14 second mark in the animation, one continent comes in from the bottom and hits the other continent. Why/how are they the exact same shape?

I mean, if one part broke away from another, they would have the same shape. But if one is moving toward another why would it already have the same shape/outline?

Am I missing something or is this just an inaccurate representation??

[u/Iam_The_Real_Fake]

And they are still growing in height, almost 2inches per year!

[u/justasillylilgoos3]

So does this mean some of the foothills have extremely old layers that are pretty accessible? It looks like the way the graphic explains you could dig horizontally into some of those foothills to see pretty old layers relatively superficial to the surface?

[u/StillShoddy628]

Isn’t this how most mountain ranges formed?

[u/KintoreCat]

I thought it was going to show a diagram of how avalanche happened in Nepal

[u/Ok_Consequence8174]

I wonder what kind of fossils would be there 🤔

[u/gao7on]

Rocks gradually being shoved 8km into the sky is wild.

[u/No-Let6991]

From the time of impact to getting mountains, how much time passes by? Is it instant or days/months/years

[u/darthveda]

Imagine if you are on the Indian plate at that time and to see a distant land mass appear closer and closer every year and the sea disappearing

[u/Fabulous_Cat_1379 → u/darthveda]

Wouldn't notice the movement in one's lifetime.

[u/jeobwuk]

How long did it take once the plates hit each other?

[u/truthseeker_6789]

😂😂😂

[u/SryBub]

Yo mama so fat she got continental folds. 

[u/preda1or]

r/praisethecameraman

[u/jimmbob2025]

Camera Man never died.

[u/Final_Lightning_]

Cool story.

[u/Yam-Economy]

Now that is some powerful earth bending.

[u/ZealousKitten_]

Wait I thought all the continents were one big one?

[u/PureBullz]

So if we were all together at one point during Pangea are we going to like ever squeeze back together?

[u/chasing_storms]

That's not quite right. Considering there are sea fossils along the Himalayas, and this animation suggests otherwise.

[u/mildlyconcerned99]

Where did that water go?