Author: Filippo De FilippiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909
Author: Filippo De FilippiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Karakoram and Western Himalaya
Author: De FillipiPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5872497997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Karakoram and Western Himalaya, 1909, an account of the expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Abbruzzi;
Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909
Author: Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909: Text
Author: Filippo De FilippiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Glaciers of the Karakoram Himalaya
Author: Kenneth HewittPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789402405064
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Karakoram contains the greatest concentration of glaciers and most of the largest ice masses outside high latitudes. They comprise major stores and sources of fresh water in an otherwise extreme, continental, dry region. As many as 200 million people living downstream, in the valleys of the Indus and Yarkand Rivers, depend on melt waters from snow and ice. They are at risk from climate-change impacts on glaciers and water supply, and from hazards such as glacial lake outburst floods. Useful research initiatives go back to the nineteenth century, but coverage has generally been limited geographically and has not been continuous over time. It is almost 80 years since a monograph was devoted to the Karakoram glaciers. The book presents a comprehensive overview, including statistics for the ice cover, glacier mass balance and dynamics, glacierized landscapes, rock glaciers, water resources and environmental hazards. Published glaciological and related research is surveyed along with expedition reports and archival materials in several languages. The expanding potential of satellite coverage is exploited, but conditions and processes reported from field investigations are the main focus. Previously unpublished observations by the author are presented, based on some 45 years of work in the region. Broad understanding of the glacial environment is used to address emerging concerns about the High Asian cryosphere and the fate of its glaciers. These are discussed in relation to the pressing issues of water supply, environmental risk and sustainability. Questions of what is not known help identify much needed monitoring and research. The book is of interest to researchers, professionals, and those studying glaciers, mountain environments, water resources and environmental hazards. The topics discussed should be of concern for anyone involved in regional development and global change in South and Inner Asia.
Colliding Continents
Author: Mike SearlePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191652490
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The crash of the Indian plate into Asia is the biggest known collision in geological history, and it continues today. The result is the Himalaya and Karakoram - one of the largest mountain ranges on Earth. The Karakoram has half of the world's highest mountains and a reputation as being one of the most remote and savage ranges of all. In this beautifully illustrated book, Mike Searle, a geologist at the University of Oxford and one of the most experienced field geologists of our time, presents a rich account of the geological forces that were involved in creating these mountain ranges. Using his personal accounts of extreme mountaineering and research in the region, he pieces together the geological processes that formed such impressive peaks.
Tectonics of the Western Himalayas
Author: Lawrence L. MalinconicoPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813722322
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Papers from a symposium held in San Antonio, Texas, 1986. Contributors consider problems of crustal and lithospheric scales in this area. Contains a folded map of the Salt Range, Pakistan. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909: Plates, maps and indexes
Author: Filippo De FilippiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Himalaya Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909; an Account of the Expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi
Author: Filippo de FilippiPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230049137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...broken in every direction by crevasses, most of them covered with treacherous snow. We found it necessary to put on the ropes. At the top of the short ascent the glacier again becomes almost level for a little stretch, forming a terrace 18,370 feet in altitude, covered with a thick layer of snow and full of crevasses. We had been approaching the left side of the valley, and we reached this level not far from a rocky spur that comes down toward us from the Broad Peak, from Camp VI 1/ (' 1'11.) nl. ' 'E' JLI g'l, 'I"' northern summit of Broad Peak. This was the site of the Eckenstein--Pfannl-Guillarmod expedition's Camp X. At this point Conway's map leaves off. In surveying the valley, from Fan Pass in the Crystal Peak chain, about seven and a half miles distant, it looked to him as though the brow of this little plateau' might be the top of a col (Possible Saddle). The Eckenstein-PfannlGuillarmod expedition discovered and explored the upper basin of the Godwin Austen, and put the site of the watershed much farther toward the north-east, at Windy Gap. Guillarmod's narrative is accompanied by a map of the Baltoro, on a scale of 1: 200,000, which reproduces that of Conway in its general hues, with the addition of the upper Godwin Austen.1 He does not describe the methods employed in the survey, but the map of the new part, despite its appearance of exactness and its being furnished with contours, is only an approximate sketch, in which the outlines of the mountains, the lateral valleys and the confluent glaciers are so altered that it is difiicult to identify them when one is on the spot. Without going into detail, it is suificient to instance that the upper basin of the...
Karakoram and Western Himalaya, 1909, an Account of the Expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Abbruzzi; Volume 2
Author: Filippo De FilippiPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016009256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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