Lucknow University Geologists Discover New Theory

LUCKNOW, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com) - It seems like the Himalayas are much younger than we thought. Reportedly, a new study by Lucknow University geologists have revealed the fact that the Himalayas witnessed its growth 15 million years ago. Reportedly, the recent study by the Lucknow University geologists have clashed with the common belief of the researchers regarding the age of the Himalayas.

Prof. Vibhuti Rai and his fellow team of researchers from Lucknow University are of the opinion that the earliest sediment of the Shivalik Mountain Range is the one which determines the actual age of the Himalayas. The Lucknow University geologist team has proved that it was the Shivalik Range which had the first sediment for the Himalayas and slowly it took up a different course all together. The Lucknow University professor led his team to determine the age of the Himalayas by employing “Geochronology” and through Paleomegnatic studies that reveals the location and exact time of the rock formation. The Lucknow University professor told the media that the Indian sub-continent had its source somewhere in the Indian Ocean and it was 71 million years ago when it drifted apart floating. Slowly it went ahead to hit the Euro-Asian Plate which finally gave birth to the Himalayas.

The Lucknow University professor has been studying the Himalayas for over two decades and he was the first one to have made an assumption about the actual age of the Himalayas. The recent discoveries by Lucknow University shall be a boon to all geologists who had been studying the Himalayas for over years.It shall also help them to determine when the Himalayas started it’s formation.