The Himalayas, the Asian mountain range that includes some of the tallest peaks in the world, turns out to be about 15 million years younger than geologists thought.
Various dating techniques have shown that many of the sediments deposited along the Himalayas’ southern foothills are no more than 35 million years old.
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