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Lake Sarez and the Usoi Dam in Tajikistan: Hazard Assessment, Stability and Risk Management Perspectives

GeoHazards
Lake Sarez in Tajikistan, formed by a major earthquake-induced landslide in 1911, is located in the highly seismically active Pamir–Hindu Kush region. The lake is impounded by the Usoi Dam, one of the largest natural landslide dams in the world, which ...
Zafarjon Sultonov, Hari K. Pant
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The Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Pamir, Tianshan and Adjacent Regions

In the northwestern India‐Asia collision zone, intensive tectonic deformation (e.g., orogenic uplift and crustal exhumation) is observed, but its relationships with deep mantle dynamics remain controversial.
Xuewei Bao, Yang Pan, Kecheng Zhou, Mengfan Jiang   +3 more
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Multisystem dating of modern river detritus from Tajikistan and China: Implications for crustal evolution and exhumation of the Pamir

, 2014
The Pamir is the western continuation of Tibet and the site of some of the highest mountains on Earth, yet comparatively little is known about its crustal and tectonic evolution and erosional history. Both Tibet and the Pamir are characterized by similar
Sobel, Edward (Prof. Dr.), Mustapha, Fariq Shazanee, DeCelles, Peter G., Carrapa, Barbara, Cosca, Michael, Schoenbohm, Lindsay M., Gehrels, George, Russell, Joellen, Goodman, Paul   +8 more
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Khalifa of Pamir, Custodians of Knowledge [PDF]

This paper explores both social role and spiritual functions of the local religious leaders in Tajikistan sector of Pamir mountains, called Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast.
Mikhalev Maxim
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Glacier variations in the pamir-alai and west tien shan mountains, central asia over the last ninety years [PDF]

Glacier variations over the last 90 years in the mountain areas of the Pamir-Alai and West Tien Shan, in central Asia, were documented by observations of glacier terminus.
Narama, Chiyuki, ナラマ, チユキ, 8272   +2 more
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Multi-scale imaging of the Main Pamir Thrust faults within the framework of CaTeNA project – Climatic and Tectonic Natural Hazards in Central Asia

We propose to investigate the structure and evolution of the Main Pamir Thrust (MPT) with a high-density seismological array. The MPT, with its surface expression along the east-west trending Alai Valley, marks the northern boundary of the Pamir.
Schurr, Bernd, Abdybachaev, Ulan, Yuan, Xiaohui, Haberland, Christian, Sharshebaev, Azamat   +4 more
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Genetic features of transparent scapolites of the muzkol metamorphic series, Central Pamir

Известия высших учебных заведений: Геология и разведка
Background. the genetic features of transparent scapolite of the muzkol metamorphic series (Pr1), Central Pamir, are studied. The geological position of its deposits and occurrences is confined to albitites and granite pegmatites of the Sarydzhilga ...
A. K. Litvinenko, Sh. S. Odinaev, G. K. Khachatryan   +2 more
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Papers of Ernst Leumann (512): Zigeunerisches (& Pamir-Sprachen)

Zigeunerisches (& Pamir-Sprachen)C.1: "Zigeunerisch nach Dr. Heinrich von Wlislocki "Vom wandernden Zigeunervolke"... - c.2: "Sprachen im Pamir-Gebiet und im Umkreis"Katalognummer: 512Medium/Umfang: 2 cc.; c.1 contains 4 unbound leavesLokale Notation ...
Leumann, Ernst
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Contrasting glacier mass balance changes in High Mountain Asia from 1975 to 2013. [PDF]

Natl Sci Rev
Zhou Y, Wang Y, Zheng D, Chen W, Zhang G, Su B, Cao B, Hu J, Li Z, Li X.   +9 more
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Strength of Wooden Truss Connections with Nail Plates Under Cyclic Humidity Changes. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Wieruszewski M, Czerwiński A, Wdowiak-Postulak AK, Jarzębski M, Trociński A.   +4 more
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