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MARC recordGlaciers of the Karakoram Himalaya: glacial environments, processes, hazards and resources / Kenneth Hewitt.
| Title: | Glaciers of the Karakoram Himalaya: glacial environments, processes, hazards and resources / Kenneth Hewitt. |
| Author(s): | Hewitt, Kenneth. |
| Date: | 2014. |
| Publisher: | Dordrecht: Springer |
| Abstract: | Provides comprehensive overview of glaciers of Karakorum Himalaya with sections on: regional context; snow, ice and verticality in Karakoram; Karakoram glaciers, types and terrain; snowfall and glacier nourishment; 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; and glaciers in human life. Suitable for glaciologists, geographers and water resource professionals. |
| Keywords: | 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.324 -- Land ice. 551.324.22 -- Glaciers. 551.324.4 -- Land ice, mass and energy balance. 551.324.43 -- Land ice, regime and mass balance. 551.324.433 -- Land ice, ablation and calving. 551.324.5 -- Land ice, flow. 551.324.65 -- Land ice, surges and catastrophic changes. 551.324.86 -- Glacier streams. 551.324.862 -- Jokulhaups. 556 -- Hydrology. 551.33 -- Glacial geology. 551.343.4 -- Rock glaciers. 551.58 -- Climatology. 551.583 -- Climatic changes. 551.583.2 -- Climatic changes, historic. 551.588 -- Climate, effect of man and environment. 551.588.5 -- Climate, relationship with ice. E5 -- Glaciology: land ice. (510) -- People's Republic of China. (540) -- India. (549) -- Pakistan. (235.24) -- Himalayas. Karakorum. Tibetan plateau. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 551.324.22 : (235.24)[2014] |
| ISBN: | 9789400763104 |
| SPRI record no.: | 211771 |
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