Mike Searle: Colliding Continents

Cover: 9780198798514 | Colliding Continents | Mike Searle | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2017

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1: Oceans and continents

2: Continents in collision: Kashmir, Ladakh, Zanskar

3: The dreaming spires of the Karakoram

4: Pressure, temperature, time, and space

5: Frozen rivers and fault lines

6: Northwest Frontier: Kohistan, Hindu Kush, Pamirs

7: Faces of Everest

8: Mapping the geology of Everest and Makalu

9: Mountains and Maoists: Annapurna, Manaslu

10: Around the bend: Nanga Parbat, Namche Barwa

11: Roof of the World: Tibet, Pamirs

12: Extruding Indochina: Burma, Vietnam, Yunnan, Thailand

13: The day the Earth shook: Sumatra-Andaman earthquake 2004

14: The making of Himalaya, Karakoram, and Tibetan plateau

Postscript

Acknowledgements

Appendix 1: Basics

Appendix 2: Glossary

Appendix 3: Local glossary

Appendix 4: Chronology

Notes

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Fachbereich:	Geologie
Genre:	Geowissenschaften , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198798514
ISBN-10:	0198798512
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Searle, Mike
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	246 x 172 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Mike Searle
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.10.2017
Gewicht:	0,921 kg