In search of the lost ocean

1991/09/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Geografia
• Geologia

Ortzi scientists have launched themselves to the largest mountain range in the world about fifty million years ago in search of the traces of the ocean that covered the current Himalayas.

Scientists from eight states have launched themselves to the largest mountain range in the world about fifty million years ago in search of the ocean footprints of the current Himalayas. It is expected that within a period of two months the average mineral ton that can contain the fossil of the molluscs is collected. The group also has professional mountaineers who will work at altitudes between 3,000 and 6,000 meters north of 500 kilometers of Kathmandu near the limit of Tibet. The first expedition sent in 1988 detected large marine fossils.

In the early days of the evolution of the Earth there existed in the present Himalayas, wife of Thetys Okeanos in Greek mythology, an ocean called Thetys, which characterized the continents known as Laurasia and Gondwana, formed about 180 million years ago.