Passing by the gateway to Lahaul, Koksar, nestled at 10,300 feet along the Chandra River, is a quaint village en route to Leh and one of the coldest villages in the Lahaul and Spiti Districts of Himachal Pradesh, northern India. I witnessed amazing landforms, gigantic, mammoth rocky mountain ranges, and typical geological features that cannot be expressed in words. For an adventurist like me, it was a whole new world of natural beauty, and it certainly will be any geologist's delight. The Himachal and Koksar geologies are dominated by Precambrian rocks that are said to have assembled and formed during the India-Asia plate collision and the subsequent Himalayan orogeny. With an age of 50–60 Ma or even more, the rock type is predominantly gneiss and granite with a quartzite mix. Experts can elaborate on it better and in much finer detail. What I found amazing, I thought of sharing with all—a glimpse of the magnificent.
(Zoom in on the pictures to see the typical rock features.)
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