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January 2008
Clipmark: Photo exhibition on Kailash Mansarovar opens
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check out the great photos here
June 2007
Clipmark: kailash manasarovar experiences byShrilatha Puthi
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I had tough time moving up and down, and it made me tired. I was getting worried how I would do parikrama. We started walking back to our campsite.
kailash manasarovar experiences byShrilatha Puthi
by shankargallery
I had tough time moving up and down, and it made me tired. I was getting worried how I would do parikrama. We started walking back to our campsite.
Digital Himalaya Project
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The Digital Himalaya Project is digitising archival collections of ethnographic information from the Himalayan region. Five major anthropological collections were selected for digitisation in the first phase of the projec
Tethyan Himalaya : Eduardo Garzanti
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A complex interplay of tectonic, eustatic and oceanographic processes concurred in the development of ‘drowning unconformities’ at the top of the Giumal clastic shelf. Rapid deepening and waning of both volcanic and quartzo-feldspathic terrigenous det
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May 2007
Himalayas: Two continents collide
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About 225 million years ago, India was a large island still situated off the Australian coast, and a vast ocean (called Tethys Sea) separated India from the Asian continent. When Pangaea broke apart about 200 million years ago, India began to forge northw
Mystery of the Himalayas solved
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Scientists can't even be sure how high the land was before India crashed into Asia, obliterating the Tethys Ocean which used to separate them. Like western South America, the coast could have been lined by mountains.Some scientists have even suggested tha
March 2007
The Hindu News Update Service
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New Delhi, March 27 (PTI): The frozen deserts of Ladakh once had a coastal environment millions of years ago with palm trees dotting its landscape and scientists have discovered yet another evidence of it in the form of plant fossils.Palaeobotanists scour
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