Remember that the granitic rocks of the continents retain uranium and potassium, which are “incompatible” heat-producing radioactive elements that don’t mix in the mantle beneath. Thus the thick crust of the Tibetan Plateau is unusually hot. This heat expands the rocks and helps the plateau float even higher.

666) defines tillite as “a consolidated or indurated sedimentary rock formed by the lithification of glacial tillȍ.

Glacial tills can include rock flour, clay, silt, sand, gravel, cobbles and boulders depending on the source rock, the mode of deformation, the mode and distance of transportation and the mode of deposition.

Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment. Till is derived from the erosion and entrainment of material by the moving ice of a glacier. It is deposited some distance down-ice to form terminal, lateral, medial and ground moraines.

Mumbai, India Table land is second longest mountain plateau in Asia and must visit place,it is quite long and you would need to have a horse to experience the beauty of the valley from here.

The Maldives

Central Asia’s Tibetan Plateau

Tibet As The ‘Roof Of The World’ The nation of Tibet earned the distinction of being the roof of the world because it is the most elevated region within the earth. The average altitude within the nation is approximately 16,000 feet.

Ladakh

Description. English: Shandur Pass often called “Roof of the world” is also home to highest polo ground of the world as it is at the height of 3,738 meters above sea level.

K2 is located in the Karakoram Range and lies partly in a Chinese-administered enclave of the Kashmir region within the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China, and partly in the Gilgit-Baltistan portion of Kashmir under the administration of Pakistan.

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108 peaks