Colliding Continents: A geological exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Tibet - Softcover

Searle, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198798512 ISBN 13: 9780198798514

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2017

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The crash of the Indian plate into Asia is the biggest known collision in geological history, and it continues today. The result is the Himalaya and Karakoram - one of the largest mountain ranges on Earth. The Karakoram has half of the world's highest mountains and a reputation as being one of the most remote and savage ranges of all. In this beautifully illustrated book, Mike Searle, a geologist at the University of Oxford and one of the most experienced field geologists of our time, presents a rich account of the geological forces that were involved in creating these mountain ranges. Using his personal accounts of extreme mountaineering and research in the region, he pieces together the geological processes that formed such impressive peaks.

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Mike Searle has worked for the last 30 years on the geology of the Himalaya, Karakoram, Tibet, and Southeast Asia. He combines geological field investigations with mountaineering expeditions to the greater ranges, and has published more than 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of Geology and Tectonics of the Karakoram Mountains (Wiley-Blackwell, 1991) and has co-edited four books for the Geological Society of London. He has published a Geological Map of the Mount Everest region, Nepal and South Tibet (2003, 2007) and has given numerous talks about the region.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198798512
• ISBN 13: 9780198798514
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
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