Himalayas like a “multi-vehicle freeway-pile up”

New research from an Australian-Indian collaboration has provided evidence that disputes the widely accepted theory of how India and Eurasia came together.

The team used the ANU-designed Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) to date zircon crystals from north of the ancient plate boundary between India and Eurasia, and found they were the same age as those from the south.

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Mr Lloyd White, Research School of Earth Sciences and colleagues from the University of Kashmir and the University of Delhi

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