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Ecology of the Himalaya

2016
The Himalayan region, spanning Bhutan, Nepal, northern India, Pakistan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, may be defined by its mountainous geography, but it is characterized by tremendous ecological diversity. This diversity results from the altitude, slope, and aspect of the mountains and complex glaciology and hydrology as well as the climate and the
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Operation Himalaya!

British Dental Journal, 1990
Primary health care is more than a luxury for many of the world's poorest countries. The charity, Action Health 2000, is attempting to develop dental services in, among other places, the northern provinces of India. Linda Hillman answered their advertisement and found herself among the people of the 'God King'.
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The Ladakh Himalaya

2014
The timing of collision between the Indian and Tibetan plates along with significant evidence is described. The tectono-stratigraphy of the region is described under four major zones, Zanskar, Indus-Suture, Shyok Suture, and Karakoram. The plate tectonics model of subduction of the Indian plate beneath the Tibetan plate is illustrated. Tectonics of the
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Hydrology of the Himalayas

2019
The Himalayan Mountain chain is the third-largest deposit of ice and snow in the world, serves as an important source of freshwater for the 1.3 billion population living in the lowlands of river basins of Indus, Ganga and the Brahmaputra (IGB) covering eight countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan ...
Renoj J. Thayyen   +4 more
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The Quaternary of Himalaya

Boreas, 1981
Book reviewed in this article:M.
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Biogeography of the Himalaya

1974
The outstanding peculiarities of the ecology of the Himalaya may be traced to its enormous massiveness, the great elevations of the mountain ranges, their trendlines, their location in the middle of a vast continental mass, their Tertiary orogeny, the Pleistocene glaciations and continued Post-Pleistocene uplift.
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The Tethys Himalaya

2014
Lithostratigraphy (including leucogranites) is described along with structural features. The nature and age of the intrusive granite are discussed. The South Tibetan Detachment System (STDS) has a complicated history of fault reactivations. It initiated as a normal fault during pre-Himalayan rifting and reactivated as thrust during early phase of ...
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In den Himalaya [PDF]

open access: possible, 1950
Nachtliche Abreise von der Howrahstation Kalkutta. Ein Strich quer durch den Zement des weiten Bahnsteigs zeigt frommen Muselmannern die Richtung des fernen Prophetengrabes an.
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The High Himalaya

2014
Age of the Main Central Thrust, at different places, obtained by different methods is described. Litho-tectonic subdivisions are mentioned along with magmatic events. Both Vaikrita and Munsiari rocks represent two distinct rock assemblages and both have undergone pre-Himalayan metamorphism.
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Trans-Himalaya

Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, 1910
Ellsworth Huntington, Sven Hedin
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