<P> During the Jurassic, as Pangea began to rift apart, large grabens formed in central India filling with Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sandstones and conglomerates . </P> <P> By the Late Cretaceous India had separated from Australia and Africa and was moving northward towards Asia . At this time, prior to the Deccan eruptions, uplift in southern India resulted in sedimentation in the adjacent nascent Indian Ocean . Exposures of these rocks occur along the south Indian coast at Pondicherry and in Tamil Nadu . </P> <P> At the close of the Mesozoic one of the greatest volcanic eruptions in earth's history occurred, the Deccan lava flows . Covering more than 500,000 square kilometres (193,051 sq mi) area, these mark the final break from Gondwana . </P> <P> In the early Tertiary, the first phase of the Himalayan orogeny, the Karakoram phase occurred . The Himalayan orogeny has continued to the present day . </P>

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