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How did fossils of ocean-dwelling invertebrates end up on Mt. Everest?!
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Sage: In 1924, geologist Noel Odell climbed up the side of Mt Everest and found that something unexpected had beaten him there.
When he dug up these fossils out of the mountainside, he realised that somehow a bunch of ocean-dwelling invertebrates had already made the journey.
About 50 million years ago, the Indian tectonic plate was moving toward the Eurasian plate, and a plate at the bottom of the prehistoric Tethys Ocean was subducting.
Essentially, it was sliding beneath the Eurasian continent, pulling India along with it.
When the two continents hit, the land crumbled and buckled together, shoving rock upward. As the Tethys Ocean floor subducted, some of it got scraped up by the moving continents.
All that sediment built up between the continents and formed an accretionary wedge full of rocks and, yep, fossils from deep under the sea.
India kept moving, and that accretionary wedge got shoved further up towards the sky, forming the Himalayas, including Mt Everest.
To learn more, check out Crash Course Geology.
When he dug up these fossils out of the mountainside, he realised that somehow a bunch of ocean-dwelling invertebrates had already made the journey.
About 50 million years ago, the Indian tectonic plate was moving toward the Eurasian plate, and a plate at the bottom of the prehistoric Tethys Ocean was subducting.
Essentially, it was sliding beneath the Eurasian continent, pulling India along with it.
When the two continents hit, the land crumbled and buckled together, shoving rock upward. As the Tethys Ocean floor subducted, some of it got scraped up by the moving continents.
All that sediment built up between the continents and formed an accretionary wedge full of rocks and, yep, fossils from deep under the sea.
India kept moving, and that accretionary wedge got shoved further up towards the sky, forming the Himalayas, including Mt Everest.
To learn more, check out Crash Course Geology.