GEO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brahmaputra River, Himalayas, Ganges Delta
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The himalayan mountains are from top of india; formed from two continental plates colliding. World"s highest mountains because only place where two continental plates collide rather than a continental and ocean plate. The mountains are still growing because india is still colliding with asia. Served to separate south asia southern is separated by ocean. Mountains hard to cross; isolates south asia & makes more distinct barrier to cultural diffusion. Indus river (main river in pakistan), ganges river (in north india) Brahmaputra river; river comes through desert and is fed from tail end of monsoon. When ganges river and brahmaputra combine to form on river it"s called the ganges delta. If they lose bangladesh to live in they will also lose all that agricultural space. They"re located in the himalayan mountains, along the west coast due to mountains and a big tropical rain forest section in the east.
