Hello all! In the past blogs I have focused on the present
state of India, or even what has happened in the past. This is the blog that
looks into the future. There will be 3 different time periods we will look at;
1000 years from now, 10,000 years from now, and 1,000,000 from now. Now
remember the first blog when we looked at how India collided with the Eurasian
plate? That will play a huge roll in this blog. But lets get started.
India 1000 years from now:
Despite that erosion and weathering are attacking the
Himalayas; probably with frost wedging, a processes that gets water into the
cracks of the rocks and freezes inside the rock, breaking it apart bit by bit,
the Himalayas are only going to continue to grow. This is because the Indian-Australian
plate is continuing into the Eurasian plate. There will not be much of a
difference of change but the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau will continue to
rise because of this. The reason why the Tibetan plateau will continue to rise
is due to India sinking underneath the continent, creating a double crust and
making the world try to reach equilibrium. This is called isostacy, since there
is more crust being added, the ground is trying to reach the middle ground, so
to speak. The mass wasting events won’t do much damage to the large Himalayas
because they are so large.
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| I used this picture to illustrate the movement from India is pushing up the Tibetan plateau due to isostacy. This is the best picture to find because it shows the movement of India uplifting. Photo courtesy of http://www.geoportalen.no/geofarer/sichuan/ |
India 10,000 years from now:
The infamous large mountains are only going to grow larger
as India collides into them. But the country India will have head way into the
Eurasian plate and there will be a bit of land that is in the mountains. This
movement of India will affect its climate, just a little. The end of India will
possibly move from the equatorial low into the subtropical high making the nice
moist end of India move into a possible semi- arid region, as the windward side
of the country will continue to be moist.
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| This picture shows where India is placed in terms of where the Hadley cells are. This shows that the movement into the Eurasian plate will cause the very tip and possibly Sir Lanka to move completely into the subtropical highs. Photo courtesy of http://serc.carleton.edu/eslabs/weather/3b.html. |
India 1,000,000 from now:
If you skipped from present day to now, you would see the significant
difference of the size of India which is still moving into the Tibetan plateau.
The Himalayas would be even bigger despite the weathering and erosion, because
the giants are only continuing to grow. The only real weathering that could be
really possible would be frost wedging due to how cold it is at the summit of
the mountain. Other places have more opportunities like the loss of vegetation
at the base could create a rock fall, the angle of repose would only help with
the change.
In conclusion:
India is going to disappear, sadly. Each year
it sinks underneath the Eurasian plate due to plate tectonics and the only
evidence of India will be conserved in the Himalayas, which will one day be
weathered and eroded away. The end of the Himalayas will be the last of the
country India.
Goodbye all!
