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	The region around Mount Kailash and the Indus headwaters area is typified by wide-scale [[faulting]] of [[metamorphosed]] late-[[Cretaceous]] to mid-[[Cenozoic]] [[sedimentary rocks]] which have been [[intruded]] by [[Igneous rock\|igneous]] Cenozoic [[granitic]] rocks. Mount Kailash appears to be a [[metasedimentary]] [[roof pendant]] supported by a massive [[granite]] base. The [[Cenozoic]] rocks represent offshore marine [[limestone]]s deposited before [[subduction]] of the [[Tethys Ocean\|Tethys oceanic]] [[Crust (geology)\|crust]]. These sediments were deposited on the southern margin of the Asia block during subduction of the Tethys oceanic crust before the [[Indian Plate\|collision between the Indian and Asian continents]].<ref>[http://www.shangri-la-river-expeditions.com/wchinageo/indushwgeo/kailash&indushwgeo.html Geology and Geography of the Mt. Kailash area and Indus River headwaters in southwestern Tibet] Pete Winn, Science Director, Earth Science Expeditions. Retrieved January 2014.</ref><ref>[http://plate-tectonic.narod.ru/chinageo1photoalbum.html Plate Tectonic & northern Pacific] Accessed January 2014.</ref> Geologists attribute the mountain's distinctive pyramidal shape to glacial erosion during the Quaternary Ice Age, similar to the geomorphological processes that formed the Matterhorn in the Alps.<ref>Mount Kailash: Facts and Myths, https://rptreks.com/mount-kailash-facts-and-myths/</ref>		The region around Mount Kailash and the Indus headwaters area is typified by wide-scale [[faulting]] of [[metamorphosed]] late-[[Cretaceous]] to mid-[[Cenozoic]] [[sedimentary rocks]] which have been [[intruded]] by [[Igneous rock\|igneous]] Cenozoic [[granitic]] rocks. Mount Kailash appears to be a [[metasedimentary]] [[roof pendant]] supported by a massive [[granite]] base. The [[Cenozoic]] rocks represent offshore marine [[limestone]]s deposited before [[subduction]] of the [[Tethys Ocean\|Tethys oceanic]] [[Crust (geology)\|crust]]. These sediments were deposited on the southern margin of the Asia block during subduction of the Tethys oceanic crust before the [[Indian Plate\|collision between the Indian and Asian continents]].<ref>[http://www.shangri-la-river-expeditions.com/wchinageo/indushwgeo/kailash&indushwgeo.html Geology and Geography of the Mt. Kailash area and Indus River headwaters in southwestern Tibet] Pete Winn, Science Director, Earth Science Expeditions. Retrieved January 2014.</ref><ref>[http://plate-tectonic.narod.ru/chinageo1photoalbum.html Plate Tectonic & northern Pacific] Accessed January 2014.</ref>

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	[[File:Kailash north.JPG\|thumb\|The north face of Mount Kailash.]]		[[File:Kailash north.JPG\|thumb\|The north face of Mount Kailash.]]

	The region around Mount Kailash and the Indus headwaters area is typified by wide-scale [[faulting]] of [[metamorphosed]] late-[[Cretaceous]] to mid-[[Cenozoic]] [[sedimentary rocks]] which have been [[intruded]] by [[Igneous rock\|igneous]] Cenozoic [[granitic]] rocks. Mount Kailash appears to be a [[metasedimentary]] [[roof pendant]] supported by a massive [[granite]] base. The [[Cenozoic]] rocks represent offshore marine [[limestone]]s deposited before [[subduction]] of the [[Tethys Ocean\|Tethys oceanic]] [[Crust (geology)\|crust]]. These sediments were deposited on the southern margin of the Asia block during subduction of the Tethys oceanic crust before the [[Indian Plate\|collision between the Indian and Asian continents]].<ref>[http://www.shangri-la-river-expeditions.com/wchinageo/indushwgeo/kailash&indushwgeo.html Geology and Geography of the Mt. Kailash area and Indus River headwaters in southwestern Tibet] Pete Winn, Science Director, Earth Science Expeditions. Retrieved January 2014.</ref><ref>[http://plate-tectonic.narod.ru/chinageo1photoalbum.html Plate Tectonic & northern Pacific] Accessed January 2014.</ref>		The region around Mount Kailash and the Indus headwaters area is typified by wide-scale [[faulting]] of [[metamorphosed]] late-[[Cretaceous]] to mid-[[Cenozoic]] [[sedimentary rocks]] which have been [[intruded]] by [[Igneous rock\|igneous]] Cenozoic [[granitic]] rocks. Mount Kailash appears to be a [[metasedimentary]] [[roof pendant]] supported by a massive [[granite]] base. The [[Cenozoic]] rocks represent offshore marine [[limestone]]s deposited before [[subduction]] of the [[Tethys Ocean\|Tethys oceanic]] [[Crust (geology)\|crust]]. These sediments were deposited on the southern margin of the Asia block during subduction of the Tethys oceanic crust before the [[Indian Plate\|collision between the Indian and Asian continents]].<ref>[http://www.shangri-la-river-expeditions.com/wchinageo/indushwgeo/kailash&indushwgeo.html Geology and Geography of the Mt. Kailash area and Indus River headwaters in southwestern Tibet] Pete Winn, Science Director, Earth Science Expeditions. Retrieved January 2014.</ref><ref>[http://plate-tectonic.narod.ru/chinageo1photoalbum.html Plate Tectonic & northern Pacific] Accessed January 2014.</ref> Geologists attribute the mountain's distinctive pyramidal shape to glacial erosion during the Quaternary Ice Age, similar to the geomorphological processes that formed the Matterhorn in the Alps.<ref>Mount Kailash: Facts and Myths, https://rptreks.com/mount-kailash-facts-and-myths/</ref>

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