Landslide in the Karakoram Mountain Ranges...

he Karakoram Mountains form the western side of the Himalaya Mountain Range. This range extends from the Pakistan-Afghanistan region into Tibet. Formation of this great mountain chain began when India drifted away from Gondwanaland (a land mass that consisted of all the southern continents of Pangea) and moved northwards colliding into Asia (as seen in The Break up of Pangea Diagram and Animation to the right), giving rise to the tallest mountains in the world (Windley 1988). This collision was caused by plate subduction. In the process of plate tectonics where two plates are converging, one plate will be pushed down by another plate as they come together (as seen in the two Subduction Diagrams to the right). During the formation of the Karakoram Mountain range, it is the Indian plate that was subducted by the Asia plate (Rex et al 1988). This under thrusting of the plates at continental convergence zones causes crustal thickening (crustal thickening is illustrated in the picture: Subduction Zone For Converging Plates), which is was ultimately formed the mountains (Rex et al 1988). Although the Karakoram Plate is a subduction zone, scientists have found some strike-slip faults, some of which are still active (Kahn and Glenn 2006, and Rex et al 1988). The biggest strike-slip fault in the region is called the Karakoram Fault and it extends about 800km in length.

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