The correct answer to this question should be "The Middle East."
Southwest Asia is also called the Middle East. The reason why it is called the Middle East is because the land located is between the continents of both Asia and Europe. If you look at a map, some countries in the Middle East (or Southwest Asia) are Iran, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and other countries.
The type of the sedimentary that are present in the Himalayas were the marble, dolomite and silts stone and shale and limestone as per the geologic records the carbon dating of the rocks reveals there ages as per the data collected from the accumulation of the sediments. The upliftment of seas and also the fossil life of the plants and animals that were found during that period.