tectonic evolution of north pakistan?
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pakistan will crumble underneath the eurasian plates
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Have you seen this site:\n\nhttp://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Carboniferous/Pennsylvanian.htm
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"No golden tombs, no fancy ziggurats. Four thousand years ago city builders in the Indus Valley made deals, not war, and created a stable, peaceful, and prosperous culture."\n"No golden tombs, no fancy ziggurats. Four thousand years ago city builders in the Indus Valley made deals, not war, and created a stable, peaceful, and prosperous culture."\n\n\nThe railway linking Lahore to Multan in Pakistan is 4,600 years old. In truth, the rails were laid down in the middle of the nineteenth century, but to build the railway bed, British engineers smashed bricks from crumbling buildings and rubble heaps in a town called Harappa, halfway between the two cities. Back in 1856, Alexander Cunningham, director of the newly formed Archeological Survey of British India, thought the brick ruins were all related to nearby seventh-century Buddhist temples. Local legend told a different story: the brick mounds were the remnants of an ancient city, destroyed when its king committed incest with his niece. Neither Cunningham nor the locals were entirely correct. In small, desultary excavations a few years later, Cunningham found no temples or traces of kings, incestuous or otherwise. Instead he reported the recovery of some pottery, carved shell, and a badly damaged seal depicting a one-horned animal, bearing an inscription in an unfamiliar writing.\n\nThat seal was a mark of one of the world's great ancient civilizations, but mid-nineteenth-century archaeologists like Cunningham knew nothing about it. The Vedas, the oldest texts of south Asia, dating from some 3,500 years ago, made no mention of it, nor did the Bible. No pyramids or burial mounds marked the area as the site of an ancient power. Yet, 4,600 years ago, at the same time as the early civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, great cities arose along the flood plains of he ancient Indus and Saraswati rivers in what is now Pakistan and northwest India. The people of the Indus Valley didn't build towering monuments, bury their riches along with their dead, or fight legendary and bloody battles. They didn't have a mighty army or a divine emperor. Yet they were a highly organized and stupendously successful civilization. They built some of the world's first planned cities, created one of the world's first written languages, and thrived in an area twice the size of Egypt and Mesopotamia for 700 years.\n\nTo archeologists of this century and last, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, a neighboring city some 350 miles to the southwest, posed an interesting, if unglamorous puzzle. Excavations revealed large, orderly walled cities of massive brick buildings, with highly sophisticated sanitation and drainage systems and a drab, institutional feel. The streets of Harappa, remarked British archeologist Mortimer Wheeler, "however impressive quantitatively, and significant sociologically, are aesthetically miles of monotony." The archeologist and popular author Leonard Cottrell, a contemporary of Wheeler's, wrote in 1956, "While admiring the efficiency of Harappan planning and sanitary engineering, one's general impression of Harappan culture is unattractive... One imagines those warrens of streets, baking under the fierce sun of the Punjab, as human ant heaps, full of disciplined, energetic activity, supervised and controlled by a powerful, centralized state machine; a civilization in which there was little joy, much labor, and a strong emphasis on material things."\n\nSuperior plumbing and uniform housing, no matter how well designed, don’t fire the imagination like ziggurats and gold-laden tombs. "But there's more to society than big temples and golden burials," argues Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, an archeologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. "Those are the worst things that ancient societies did, because they led to their collapse. When you take gold and put it in ground, it's bad for the economy. When you wast
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look up plate tectonics
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Check to following link to know more about Tsunami.\n\nIt's not possible to accurately predict plate tectonics  currently.
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Brouse around this site - it is excellent.\n\nhttp://www.palaeos.com/Earth/Geography/Pangea.htm
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As a VERY quick-and-dirty reference, you can check\nhttp://www.mapsofworld.com/lat_long/pakistan-lat-long.html\n\nwhich has the latitudes of various cities in Pakistan.  You can see cities both north and south of the 33rd, and Bannu is right on it.  So the short answer is "yes".  Hope that helps!
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Afect in long, medium and short term.\n\nRecent studies shows that earthquakes increase plancton in that specifc area. It warm deep water and increase potenciality of fitoplancton. \n\nInfact is not Tectonic plates but its effects. \n\nOther obvious consequences are volcanoes and montains resultant by tectonic effetc (medium and long term). \n\nAll dorsals (tectonic) have some kind of new categpory of life. They live from minerals, heat and chemicals, entire new ecossitems that are being usedto explain how can be life out of earth. \n\nAt a more long term, you have continent division, creating this way complete new race by geographic isolation. \n\nModern and humans: Tsunamis (changing Human life) like that one last year and  Big one (Economic crisis and Human catastrophic event) - Saint Andreas.
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Types of plate movement:\nlateral (ie., San Andreas fault in CA) - side by side\nconvergent (ie.,Himalayan Mts.) - pushing together\ndivergent (ie., mid Atlantic Ridge) - pulling apart.\nCheck this site:\n\nhttp://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/joy/denali/DAuria/plate_mvmt.html
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http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/Maps/map_plate_tectonics_world.html
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The Himalaya's formed when the sub continent of India broke away from Gondwanalandand from memory approx 55 million years ago. Gondwanaland was comprised of the continents we now know as Antarctica, Australia, South America and Africa.  The Indian piece travelled north and collided with Asia ie where India now is.  This caused uplift of the collision forming the Himalaya's.  It is anticipated that Australia (which is drifting north at a rate of 13cm per year will eventually form part of mainland China.  It would be likely by that time that the Himalaya's would be considerably smaller due to erosion and the collision between Australia and China will create a new mountain range.
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Yes, continental drift is still happening.  A typical comparison is that the expansion of the mid-Atlantic ridge is causing the two sides of the Atlantic ocean to move apart at about the rate your fingernail grows, or about 3cm a year.\n\nThe Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 was caused by the eastern edge of the India plate sliding under the Burma plate in what's called subduction zone.  For a couple hundred years, the friction between the two plates caused the lip of the Burma plate to gradually bend down.  On 12/26/2004, about 750 miles of the seam between the slipped free, and the bent-down lip of the Burma plate snapped upwards about 50ft, causing the tsunami.
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Search on google pakistan, www.google.com.pk or www.urdupoint.com
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http://www.atlas.keystone.edu/research/geology/03HistoricalGeology.htm\n\nThere's a start, just search for the word pennsylvania on the site.\n\nHere's some on the cambrian:\nhttp://www.paleoportal.org/time_space/state.php?state_id=9&period_id=16
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Try http://www.geo.lsa.umich.edu/~crlb/COURSES/270/Lec12/Lec12.html\nIt helped me do my homework! Also, it has pictures of plate boundries and plate tectonics. Hope it helps!
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Plate tectonics moves continents around in a cyclic pattern known as the Wilson Cycle. In about 250 million years in the future, we will again have a supercontinent.\n\nThe Paleomap Project has predicted what the earth will look like based on current evidence. The Atlantic Ocean will no longer exist, as North American will be forced up against Africa and Europe, and Indian Ocean may only remain as an inland sea.  Antarctica will again be at the South Pole and Australia will be pushed up against it. The southern part of South America will be adjoining Indonesia. \n\nThe area where the south Pacific is now is likely to have some new volcanic islands, but probably all of the currently existing islands will have been pushed up against a continent. The Pacific Ocean will be much larger than today and will cover half of the earth. \n\nHere is a map:\nhttp://www.scotese.com/future2.htm\n\nI would speculate that even further in the future as the supercontinent breaks up, it is likely that some portion of the supercontinent will move towards the South Pacific. \n\nVolcanism plays an important role in building continental plates, and is constantly adding continental material, but continental plates are composed primarily of less dense intrusive igneous rocks such as granite. Volcanoes produce extrusive igneous rocks, which do not make up the major parts of the continental land masses so volcanoes are not as important in continent building as other processes.  \n\nHere's a site that explains the Wilson Cycle:\nhttp://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/fichter/Wilson/Wilson.html
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Misread first time. Second time--Philippine\nsee map:\nhttp://www.minerals.si.edu/tdpmap/fom/interpretive.htm