This is only relates to geology in that, there is oil involved. I just wanted to share.
Exxon Suburban Oil Spill.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
The India-Asia Collision
According to new scientific data the India-Asia collision could have happened 10 million years later than previously thought. Information gathered from rock samples in the Himalayas have led scientists to believe that previous information about the age and nature of the collision is incorrect.
It is now thought that India was smaller than previously thought. Not to be mistaken with the fact that India is now smaller than it was before the collision, it is thought that India was smaller than previously held beliefs and that a small chain of islands were in between India and Asia before the collision. It is also believed that part of India was pushed under the Eurasian plate during the collision. The fact that there may be a 10 million year difference plays an important role in what the size of India may have been. "India moved more than 10 centimeters a year. Ten million years [later] is 1,000 kilometers less in convergence. That is a real difference."
Through a method of analyzing isotopic signatures in areas of the Himalayas, the scientists determined that the collision that happened 50 million years ago was, in fact, with the islands and not the Asian continent. It took another 10 million years for India, with islands now added to the land mass, to collide with Asia.
It is now thought that India was smaller than previously thought. Not to be mistaken with the fact that India is now smaller than it was before the collision, it is thought that India was smaller than previously held beliefs and that a small chain of islands were in between India and Asia before the collision. It is also believed that part of India was pushed under the Eurasian plate during the collision. The fact that there may be a 10 million year difference plays an important role in what the size of India may have been. "India moved more than 10 centimeters a year. Ten million years [later] is 1,000 kilometers less in convergence. That is a real difference."
Through a method of analyzing isotopic signatures in areas of the Himalayas, the scientists determined that the collision that happened 50 million years ago was, in fact, with the islands and not the Asian continent. It took another 10 million years for India, with islands now added to the land mass, to collide with Asia.
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