Pumori, Khumbu Valley, Nepal
South face of Pumori (7161 m), Khumbu Valley, Nepal. Light coloured bands and patches of rock are leucogranite, produced during Eocene to Miocene partial melting of metasedimentary rocks of the Greater Himalayan Sequence during Himalayan orogenesis .
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- Asia (1061)
- Southern Asia (291)
- Nepal (43)
- Exact location (86.8280 E, 28.0177 N)
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Taken on 26
May
2013
Submitted on 14 February 2018
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Credit
Andrew Parsons (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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