Transhimalaya

From trans- +‎ Himalaya.

Transhimalaya

1. A mountain range on the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, parallel to the main Himalayan range.
   • 1934, Sven Hedin, A Conquest of Tibet‎, New York: National Travel Club, →OCLC, pages 239–240:

     Ever upward! We ascended a new mighty chain of mountains. At Camp Number 115 we were 16,840 feet above sea level. This mountain system traverses Tibet from the west to the east and is parallel with Himalaya. I have named it Transhimalaya and it was my aim to ride across this chain at several points and to draw its main outlines on my maps.[...]A heavy march over screes and gravel led us up on the pass, Ta-la at a height of 17,830 feet. A magnificent, over- powering panorama unfolded to the southeast. Beyond the nearest branches of Transhimalaya an enormous abyss opened in the earth. It was the valley of the Tsangpo, upper Brahmaputra.

   • 1983, Augusto Gansser, Geology of the Bhutan Himalaya‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:

     To the N we find the wide, complicated «basin» of Tethyan sediments, between the northern Bhutan antiform of the crystalline thrust sheet and the con- spicuous Suture Zone along the Tsangpo river. The latter is bordered to the N by the granitoids of the Transhimalaya (Kangdese belt of the Chinese authors).

   • [1987, Blanche Christine Olschak, Himalayas: Growing Mountains, Living Myths, Migrating Peoples‎, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 81:

     This valley follows the famous Indus-Yarlung suture zone, with the granite of the Transhimalayas visible to the north.]

   • 2010, Timothy Kusky, Encyclopedia of Earth and Space Science‎, volume I, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 55:

     Subduction of Tethyan oceanic crust along the southern margin of Tibet formed an Andean-style arc represented by the Transhimalaya batholith that extends west into the Kohistan island arc sequence, in a manner similar to the Alaskan range—Aleutians of western North America.

   • 2021 May 29, Janaki Lenin, “Tales from the Transhimalaya”, in The Hindu‎, archived from the original on 29 May 2021:

     Across the Transhimalaya, wherever villagers discard carcasses and military camps dispose of their excess food, dog numbers are on the increase. The animals harass other species, from snow leopards to foxes. Ironically, they inherited their ability to survive in these oxygen-poor elevations from their wild cousins with whom their ancient ancestors interbred.

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