Question

“The Himalayas have come out of geosycline.” Illustrate the statement.

Answer 1

The Himalayas have come out of a geosyncline because:

• A geosyncline is a long, narrow, shallow sea or basin where sediments accumulate over millions of years.
• The Tethys Sea was a geosyncline between Gondwanaland and Angaraland.
• Sediments in the Tethys were compressed and folded due to the collision of the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
• This folding uplifted the Himalayas.

Thus, the Himalayas were formed from the sediments of a geosyncline (Tethys Sea).