Himalaya and Tibet: Mountain roots to mountain tops

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 328, Issue , 1999, Pages 1-7

  Sorkhabi, Rasoul B ^a,c   MacFarlane, Allison ^b,d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MOUNTAIN REGION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84872003213     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2328-0.1     Document Type: Article

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