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 .

Credit

Andrew Parsons (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

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