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Glaciers of the Karakoram Himalaya : glacial environments, processes, hazards and resources /
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 Indu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
[2013?]
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| Colección: | Advances in Asian human-environmental research.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The regional context
- Snow, ice and verticality in the Karakoram
- Karakoram glaciers : types and terrain
- Glacier mass balance. 1, Snowfall and glacier nourishment
- Glacier mass balance. 2, Ablation losses
- Glacier mass balance regimes
- Dynamics of snow and ice in glacier basins
- Landforms of the Karakoram glacierised areas
- Surge-type glaciers
- Glacial impoundments and outburst floods
- Rock glaciers and related phenomena
- Karakoram glaciers and climate change
- Glaciers in human life.