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This talk was organised by Tethys Fossil Museum & Research center which is coming up at Dangyari a small village in Kasauli Tehsil of the Indian Himalaya
The aim of organising this lecture and series of others which are coming up this year is to unravel the research which is carried by the geoscientists around the world on Tethys and the Himalayas and arrive at a consensus as to when the two plate collided and when the Himalayas were born.
Tethys as we all know was an ocean once upon a time separating India from Tibet / Eurasia
As the Indian plate moved northward the Tethys sea squeezed and when the two plates collided the Tethyan sediments were uplifted forming the mighty Himalaya.
Lots of research has been done in timing the collision of the two plates leading to the evolution and birth of the Tethyan Himalayas. But still, there is no consensus and there are Himalayan opportunities for researchers to come up with a convincing model to time the collision and explain the birth of the Himalayas. Tethys as we all know was an ocean once upon a time separating India from Tibet / Eurasia
About this talk
Peter Molnar’s research focuses largely on these two questions: (1) how large-scale geodynamic processes cause deformation of the Earth’s crust, including earthquakes and the building of mountain ranges, and (2) how shifting continents, emergence of islands, growth of mountains, etc. affect climate on geologic time scales. His work has included fieldwork in remote parts of the world, and numerical calculations of processes that obey rules of fluid mechanics.
The 1st talk by Peter Molnar tries gives a broad view about this concept as he shares his research in Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau
About the Tethys Fossil Museum
The museum is well connected with the Chandigarh International Airport via road and rail and the 90 minutes drive takes you from a few million years to 200 million years
Geologically museum is located on the debris concealing the Dagshai -Subathu boundary which signifies the closure of Tethys sea and the evolution of the terrestrial ecosystem
The museum is built from 20 million year rocks of Kasauli Sandstone beautiful chiseled to give the museum an aesthetic look
Water that we drink in the museum is from a borewell drilled
into 40 million years old white quartzite sandstone which is a marker bed extending
from Pakistan to Burma in the least.
Tethys Museum will display diverse well-Preserved fossils of Stromatolites Edia Cara, Trilobites, Molluscs, Ammonites, etc from Spiti valley
Fishes, whales Sharks, oysters molluscan foraminifera from Subathu and Leh, plant remains consisting of logs of trees, leaves, flowers, roots, etc from Kasauli and Dharamsala, and mammals from Shiwaliks.
Signifying the gradual evolution of life on this planet and the development of the mighty Himalayas. All these fossils are part of the museum repository.
So anyone visiting the museum will have a glimpse of how different fossils collected from different geological formations across the Himalayas can help to rebuild the entire paleohistory of the various events which led to the evolution and Birth of The Himalayas
Keeping this in mind, the organizing committee of Tethys fossil museum and Research center decided to host a series of lectures by veteran geologists who dedicated their lives to geo mechanism.
