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The Alpine-Himalayan Belt and the Eurasian Craton

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The Alpine-Himalayan belt which forms the zone of separation between continental masses derived from Laurasia and Gondwanaland has a history of mobility extending through the entire Phanerozoic eon. A glance at Fig. 7.1 shows that the belt began its evolution as a portion of the peripheral mobile system encircling the supercontinents. It was transformed to a largely intra-continental structure by the collision of northward-moving fragments of Gondwanaland — Africa, Arabia and Peninsular India — with the Eurasian continental mass.

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  1. Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, London, England

    H. H. Read (Professor Emeritus of Geology)

  2. Imperial College of Science and Technology, The University of London, London, England

    Janet Watson Ph.D., A.R.C.S., D.I.C. (Professor of Geology)

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Read, H.H., Watson, J. (1975). The Alpine-Himalayan Belt and the Eurasian Craton. In: Introduction to Geology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15613-9_7

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