Research Catalog

Title

Late Quaternary glaciation and palaeoclimate of the Tibetan Plateau and bordering mountains / guest editors, L.A. Owen and F. Lehmkuhl.

Publication

[Oxford ; New York] : Pergamon ; Oxford, U.K. ; Terrytown, NY : Elsevier, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Owen, Lewis A., 1964-
• Lehmkuhl, Frank.
• IGCP Project 415, Glaciation and Reorganization of Asia's Network of Drainage.

Description

212 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Quaternary international, 1040-6182 ; v. 65/66

Uniform Title

Quaternary international ; v. 65/66.

Subject

• Paleoclimatology > Tibet Autonomous Region, Plateau of
• Paleoclimatology > Quaternary
• Glacial epoch > Tibet Autonomous Region, Plateau of
• Geology, Stratigraphic > Quaternary

Note

• "This volume is a contribution to IGCP 415 (Glaciation and reorganisation of Asia's network of drainage) and is the consequence of two meetings of Working Group 2 (Glaciation of Tibet and the bordering regions) and Working Group 7 (Drainage off the Tibetan Plateau) ... held in Potsdam, Germany in May 1998 and Manali, India in June 1998."--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A positive climatic feedback mechanicm for Himalayan glaciation / A.B.G. Bush -- Mass balance and equilibrium-line altitudes of glaciers in high-mountain environments / D.I. Benn and F. Lehmkuhl -- An overview of glacial hazards in the Himalayas / S.D. Richardson and J.M. Reynolds -- Luminescence dating of Quaternary sediments in the Himalaya and High Asia / B.W.M. Richards -- The Quaternary glacial history of Nanga Parbat / L.A. Owen, C.H. Scott and E. Derbyshire -- The Quaternary glacial history of the Zanskar Range, north-west Indian Himalaya / P.J. Taylor and W.A. Mitchell -- Glaciers and mass wasting processes : their influence on the shaping of the Kali Gandaki valley (higher Himalaya of Nepal) / M. Fort.
• Quaternary paleoenvironmental change on the Tibetan Plateau and adjacent areas (Western China and Western Mongolia) / F. Lehmkuhl and F. Haselein -- Pleistocene paleoenvironmental changes in the high mountain ranges of central China and adjacent regions / K.T. Rost -- Soils as indicators of the Pleistocene and Holocene landscape evolution in the Alay Range (Kyrgystan) / W. Zech ... [et al.] -- Paleoclimatic evolution of the Uvs Nuur basin and adjacent areas (Western Mongolia) / J. Grunert, F. Lehmkuhl and M. Walther -- A selected bibliography for Late Quaternary glaciation in Tibet and the bordering mountains / P.L. Barnard and L.A. Owen.

OCLC

44150836

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library