The Himalaya is a fold-and-thrust belt in the northern margin of the Indian continental plate, and a product of the collision between India and Asia since the Eocene. The Himalayan orogen consists of several tectonostratigraphic units bounded by diachronous thrusts younging from north to south; namely, the Kangmar Thrust in southern Tibet, the Main Central Thrust, the Main Boundary Thrust, and the Main Frontal Thrust. These thrust faults are splays off from a major mid-crustal decollement named the Main Detachment Fault or the
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