Himalayan orogeny

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Cenozoic orogeny geological process mountain-building event orogeny

The Himalayan orogeny is the major mountain-building event resulting from the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, responsible for creating the Himalayan mountain range and the Tibetan Plateau.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form	Occurrences
Himalayan orogenic system	1
Himalayan tectonics	1
Indian-Eurasian plate collision zone	1
India–Asia collision	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Cenozoic orogeny ⓘ geological process ⓘ mountain-building event ⓘ orogeny ⓘ
affects	Eurasian Plate ⓘ Indo-Australian Plate ⓘ surface form: Indian Plate
cause	formation of the Himalayan mountain range ⓘ formation of the Hindu Kush region ⓘ formation of the Karakoram Range ⓘ high elevation of Mount Everest region ⓘ uplift of the Tibetan Plateau ⓘ
characterizedBy	continental collision tectonics ⓘ high rates of uplift ⓘ large-scale thrust systems ⓘ major strike-slip faults ⓘ rapid erosion ⓘ
endTime	ongoing ⓘ
hasCause	closure of the Tethys Ocean ⓘ collision of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate ⓘ northward movement of the Indian Plate ⓘ subduction of oceanic lithosphere between India and Eurasia ⓘ
hasEffectOn	Asian monsoon system ⓘ regional climate of South Asia ⓘ sedimentation in the Bengal Fan ⓘ
locatedIn	Asia ⓘ
partOf	Alpine orogeny ⓘ
produces	Greater Himalayas ⓘ surface form: Greater Himalaya Indus-Tsangpo Suture Zone ⓘ Lesser Himalayas ⓘ surface form: Lesser Himalaya Main Boundary Thrust zone ⓘ Main Central Thrust zone ⓘ Lesser Himalayas ⓘ surface form: Sub-Himalaya
relatedTo	Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt ⓘ Himalayan orogeny self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: India–Asia collision Tethyan Himalaya ⓘ
resultsIn	Indo-Gangetic Plain ⓘ surface form: Indo-Gangetic foreland basin continental-continental collision zone ⓘ crustal shortening ⓘ development of foreland basins ⓘ exhumation of high-grade metamorphic rocks ⓘ fold-and-thrust belt formation ⓘ high seismicity in the Himalayan region ⓘ large-scale thrust faulting ⓘ ongoing uplift of the Himalayas ⓘ thickening of continental crust ⓘ
startTime	Eocene ⓘ Paleogene ⓘ approximately 55 million years ago ⓘ
studiedIn	plate tectonics ⓘ structural geology ⓘ tectonophysics ⓘ

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Indo-Australian Plate → associatedWith → Himalayan orogeny ⓘ

Indus Gorge in the Himalayas → associatedWith → Himalayan orogeny ⓘ

this entity surface form: Himalayan tectonics

Cenozoic → includesEvent → Himalayan orogeny ⓘ

Karakoram → orogeny → Himalayan orogeny ⓘ

Lesser Himalayas → orogeny → Himalayan orogeny ⓘ

Hindu Kush → partOf → Himalayan orogeny ⓘ

this entity surface form: Himalayan orogenic system

Nanga Parbat → partOfTectonicSetting → Himalayan orogeny ⓘ

this entity surface form: Indian-Eurasian plate collision zone

Himalayan orogeny → relatedTo → Himalayan orogeny self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: India–Asia collision