Abstract
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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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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