EESA06H3 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 Notes
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Lecture 9: alpine-himalayan orogeny: the building of the next supercontinent (pangea i i, obduction: the process whereby we collide continents together. The geology of canada would be much different if it wasn"t for the major orogenic belt, its formation changed global climates and led to the cooling over the climate. Parts of the pacific plate are moving quite fast headed right for japan. Everything is headed towards south east asia: slide 5: figure 2. 29 in text book: it does into obduction and shows cross sections. Before india collided with asia there was an ocean the himalayas were created from this obduction. Earthquake in burma was the result of india being driven north. It"s pushing into the asian continent and spreading it as well, so you"ll see the little ladders, this is where the spreading is going on, there is also rift basins.
