Geomorphological Hazards in High Mountain Areas
On the basis of a total of thirteen case examples from the Tien Shan, Karakorum, Himalaya and Tangula Shan (central Tibet), the risk potential and hazards are inferred from the development of landscape during the Quaternary. The history of glaciers can be
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The GeoJournal Library Volume 46 Managing Editors: Herman van der Wusten, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Olga Gritsai, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Former Series Editor: Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany
Editorial Board:
Paul Claval, France R. G. Crane, U.S.A. Yehuda Gradus, Israel Risto Laulajainen, Sweden Gerd UHtig, Germany Walther Manshard, Germany Osamu Nishikawa, Japan Peter Tyson, South Africa
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Geomorphological Hazards in High Mountain Areas edited by
JAN KALVODA Charles University, Faculty of Science, prague, Czech Republic
and
CHARLES L. ROSENFELD Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A.
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-94-010-6200-8 ISBN 978-94-011-5228-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-5228-0
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CONTENTS
Contents ...................................................................................................................... v Dedication to Professor Clifford Embleton ................................................................. vii Prologue ..................................................................................................................... ix Sedimentology and clast orientation of deposits produced by glacial-lake outbursts floods in the Mount Everest region, Nepal Daniel A. Cenderelli, Ellen E. Wohl ........................................................................... 1 Catastrophic flood flushing of sediment, western Himalaya, Pakistan John F Shroder, jr., M P. Bishop, R. Scheppy ......................................................... 27 Landslides and deserted places in the semi-arid environment of the Inner Himalaya Jussi Baade, Roland Mausbacher, Gunther A. Wagner, Erwin Heine, Robert Kostka ................................................ ...................................... 49 Glacier-induced hazards as a consequence of glacigenic mountain landscape, in particular glacier- and moraine dammed lake outbursts and holocene debris production
Matthias Kuhle, Sigrid Meiners and Lasafam Iturrizaga ........................................... 63 Chaos theory of slides/mud flows in mountain areas. Example: Xiaojiang Basin, NE Yunnan, China Adrian E. Scheidegger .............................................................................................. 97 The salt weathering hazard in deserts Andrew Goudie .................................. .................................
