The Siwalik Hills (sometimes spelled Shiwalik, Shivalik, or Sivalik) are a sub-Himalayan mountain range running 1,600 km long from the Tista River, Sikkim, through Nepal and India, into northern Pakistan. The Himalaya is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. ... Mount Cook, a mountain in New Zealand A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. ...

The range runs parallel with the Himalayan system from Hardwar on the Ganges to the banks of the Beas, and though only 16 km wide in places, the hills have an average height of 900 to 1,200 m.

The Siwalik Hills are chiefly composed of low sandstone and conglomerate hills, the solidified and upheaved detritus of the great range in their rear, the intermediate valley lying between the outer hills and the Mussoorie. Ramapithecus was among many fossil finds in the region. Red Sandstone in Wyoming Layered sandstone Sandstone is an arenaceous sedimentary rock composed mainly of feldspar and quartz and varies in colour (in a similar way to sand), through grey, yellow, red, and white. ... Binomial name Sivapithecus ramapithecus Ramapithecus is an extinct primate erected from a two inch piece of a jawbone, with four teeth. ... FOSSIL is a standard for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under DOS. FOSSIL stands for Fido Opus Seadog Standard Interface Layer and was made by a group of Fidonet sysops to make their software work on different machines. ...

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