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Himalayas

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Every paragraph the index cites under Himalayas, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

59:3.3290,000,000 years ago the sea had largely with­drawn from the con­ti­nents, and the bot­toms of the sur­round­ing oceans were sink­ing. The land masses were lit­tle changed un­til they were again sub­merged. The early moun­tain move­ments of all the con­ti­nents were be­gin­ning, and the great­est of these crustal up­heavals were the Hi­malayas of Asia and the great Cale­do­nian Moun­tains, ex­tend­ing from Ire­land through Scot­land and on to Spitzber­gen.

60:1.12The ma­rine life of this pe­riod was mea­ger but im­proved rapidly with the new in­va­sion of the sea, which again pro­duced ex­ten­sive coast lines of shal­low wa­ters. Since there was more shal­low wa­ter around Eu­rope and Asia, the rich­est fos­sil beds are to be found about these con­ti­nents. To­day, if you would study the life of this age, ex­am­ine the Hi­malayan, Siberian, and Med­i­ter­ra­nean re­gions, as well as In­dia and the is­lands of the south­ern Pa­cific basin. A promi­nent fea­ture of the ma­rine life was the pres­ence of hosts of the beau­ti­ful am­monites, whose fos­sil re­mains are found all over the world.

60:3.15This was an age of vol­canic ac­tiv­ity all over the world, giv­ing rise to nu­mer­ous small iso­lated vol­canic cones. Sub­ma­rine vol­ca­noes broke out in the sub­merged Hi­malayan re­gion. Much of the rest of Asia, in­clud­ing Siberia, was also still un­der wa­ter.

61:1.13Con­sid­er­able foraminiferal lime­stone was de­posited in Eu­ro­pean wa­ters. To­day this same stone is el­e­vated to a height of 10,000 feet in the Alps, 16,000 feet in the Hi­malayas, and 20,000 feet in Ti­bet. The chalk de­posits of this pe­riod are found along the coasts of Africa and Aus­tralia, on the west coast of South Amer­ica, and about the West In­dies.

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Cited alongside: Asia, Europe, Siberia