EESA06H3 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 Notes
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alpine-himalayan orogeny: the building of the next super continent (pangea 2) earth"s history tells us of the future. all the continents are headed towards south east asia. In china when major earthquakes occur, it is because india is pushing up. the mountain range that is the product of africa colliding with europe is the alps. we don"t see volcanos is obduction zones. In fold and thrust belts there is a lot of oil and gas because they contain the right structures to trap hydro carbons. ophiolite is the remnants of former oceanic crust and sediments that previously separated the 2 continents. spans from the western alps to the tibetan plateau. gondwana- was the southern continents of pangea. cimmerian orgeon was the pre-himalayan mountain range. foreland basin- a foreland basin is a depression that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt.
