Ice-Dammed lakes and outburst floods, Karakoram Himalaya: Historical perspectives on emerging threats

Physical Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 528-551

  Hewitt, Kenneth ^a   Liu, Jingshi ^b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

glacial hazards; ice dams; Indus River; Karakoram Himalaya; outburst flood; Yarkand River

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD WAVE; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIER FLOW; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; IMPOUNDMENT; OUTBURST;

CHINA; INDUS RIVER; KARAKORAM; XINJIANG UYGUR; YARKANT RIVER;

EID: 78651316552     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.31.6.528     Document Type: Article

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