[JimSEA]

Please do go to the readily accessible source and read this brief article on a truly large and important subject. We can only see the remnants of a continual collision like this in incomplete but important fragments found in the Appalachian Mountain area, Newfoundland, Scotland (where much of the birth of Geology took place. There are other and older hints but the Himalayas and related ranges are the only place we can see it all. It's hard for me to visualize the complex of primary, secondary and tertiary faults here. The potential for massive loss of life and destruction has its evidence in the rock and soil at the geologist.

The beginning of learning is what is being seen here. These hypotheses need a lot more field work and lab work before any regional models can be tested. That and time. This is as close to living science as geology gets.

[Jack Hammer]

Better climb Everest while it’s still the world’s tallest mountain. It may soon be shorter than K2.

[dfwgator]

Bob Seger may want to reconsider.

[A CA Guy]

That will knock a lot of snow down.

[Bodega]

This was a very well written article. Plate tectonics are not normally breakfast fare but this article might be for some families.