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The year 1964 when the International Geological Congress met for the first time in India, A. Gansser published his “Geology of the Himalayas” that remains more than 20 years after the cornerstone of our geological knowledge of the highest mountain range of the world. Since the Delhi congress, however, a large amount of new information has been gathered from detailed field studies (e.g. maps of Fuchs, 1967; Bordet et al. 1968, 1971; Calkins et al. 1969; Fuchs and Frank, 1970; Hashimoto et al. 1973; Academia Sinica, 1980; Colchen et al. 1980; Stöcklin and Bhattarai, 1980, 1982; Polino, 1981; Valdiya, 1981a; Geological Bureau of Xizang, 1982; Burg, 1983; Gansser, 1983; Honegger, 1983; …). Satellite imagery has helped immensely in deciphering the most remote parts of the range as well as its Tibetan side and in making correlations (e.g. Rupke, 1974; Molnar and Tapponnier, 1975, 1978; Gansser, 1977; Ni and York, 1978; Fuchs, 1982; Armijo et al. 1986). New disciplines have been successfully tested, particularly geological and geochemical. New theories and models have enable us to link a variety of observations in a global framework. All this has resulted in the publication of a rapidly increasing number of articles and books on the Himalaya and surrounding regions.
“Jusqu’au dernier moment des Siècles, la Matière sera jeune et exubérante, étincelante et nouvelle pour qui voudra”
Hymne de l’Univers Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Le Fort, P. (1989). The Himalayan Orogenic Segment. In: Şengör, A.M.C. (eds) Tectonic Evolution of the Tethyan Region. NATO ASI Series, vol 259. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2253-2_16
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