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Khalifa of Pamir, Custodians of Knowledge [PDF]
MethexisThis 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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Towards Sustainable Land Management in the Pamir-Alai Mountains
, 2012 This Policy Brief presents the findings of the Sustainable Land Management in the Pamir-Alai Mountains (PALM) project. It contains targeted recommendations, best practices and generic guidelines in the field of sustainable land management and ecosystem ...
Pachova, Nevelina I. +6 more
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Slight change of glaciers in the Pamir over the period 2000–2017
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2022 Glaciers in the Pamir are the water tower of arid Central Asia, and more than 50 million people depend on meltwater from them. Many studies have reported glacier changes in the Pamir, but the glacier inventories employed in the previous investigations ...
Zhijie Li +4 more
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Family and Kinship Relations Among Van Kyrgyz
Научный диалог, 2022 The folk traditions and family ties among the Van Kyrgyz, who settled from the Pamir region of Afghanistan in the Eastern part of Turkey, are considered.
N. A. Isabaeva
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 The Cenozoic convergence between India and Asia has created Earth’s thickest crust in the Pamir–Tibetan plateau, leading to broadly distributed deformation and extensive crustal shortening; however, the crustal deformation of the high plateau is still ...
Davlatkhudzha Murodov +7 more
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Pamir alpine desert and tundra
, 2013 The Pamir is a high plateau located at the intersection of the world's tallest mountains of the Himalayas, Karakoram, Hindu Kush, Kunlun, and Tian Shan regions. These mountains are sometimes referred as the Roof of the World.
Mughal, M.A.Z.
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Middle to late Miocene growth of the North Pamir [PDF]
, 2022 How and when the Pamir formed remains an open question. This study explores Pamir tectonics recorded in a sedimentary section in the eastern Tajik Basin. A prominent lithofacies change that has been recognized regionally is assigned to the middle Miocene
Li, Lin +6 more
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Remote assessment of reserve capacity of outburst alpine lakes
Лëд и снег, 2016 Results of distant satellite sounding (the TERRA satellite) of high-mountainous areas and digital models SRTM 4.1 and ASTER DEM G2 of the same relief were used to calculate the following parameters of high-mountain dammed glacial lakes: area, depth, the ...
V. G. Konovalov, V. A. Rudakov
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Mineralogia, 2023 Talc is crystallized in the metamorphic dolomitic rocks of the southwest Pamir mountains in the Mulvoj area, Tajikistan. Field studies show that talc is restricted to metamorphic dolomitic marble layers in the garnet-mica schist and gneiss.
Moazzen Mohssen +2 more
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Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, 2023 An ongoing question in understanding the evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogeny is how much of the observed upper crustal shortening and crustal thickness is related to the Cenozoic collision between India and Asia vs earlier tectonic events along ...
Dustin P. Villarreal +6 more
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