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 .
Taken on 26
May
2013
Submitted on Feb. 14, 2018
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- Southern Asia (277)
- Nepal (38)
- Exact location (86.8280 E, 28.0177 N)
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Credit: Andrew Parsons (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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