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| Hangduan Shan range, Yulongxue Shan: Yulongxue Shan (Hangduan Shan range, western Yunnan Province, near the India/ Burma/China border junction). One of many south-trending mountain masses in this region, Yulongxue Shan rises to 18,800' and the course of the Yangtze River is sharply deflected around the prominence. As with the main ranges of the Himalaya, these have been uplifted in response to the collision of India with the Asian continent; along the eastern margin of the Indian block, the trend of the ranges changes from easterly to southerly. There is also lateral movement on the long, steeply inclined faults bounding the ranges, as blocks are crowded out to the southeast during the continued northward march of India. |
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