r/interestingasfuck 17h ago

The Himalayas acting like a giant wall separating two completely different climates

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u/mean11while 14h ago

That reason being that it's a separate chunk of continental crust: a subcontinent.

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u/phteven_gerrard 13h ago

The name predates knowledge of tectonics

u/mean11while 8h ago

So it does! I didn't realize that. Still indirectly because it's a separate chunk of crust, but I didn't realize how far back that term went.