Glaciers of the Karakoram Himalaya : glacial environments, processes, hazards and resources / Kenneth Hewitt.

The Karakoram contains the greatest concentration of glaciers and most of the largest ice masses outside high latitudes. They comprise major stores and sources of fresh water in an otherwise extreme, continental, dry region. As many as 200 million people living downstream, in the valleys of the Indu...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Hewitt, Kenneth (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer, [2013?]
Series:	Advances in Asian human-environmental research.
Subjects:	Glaciers > Karakoram Range. Glaciers. Asia > Karakoram Range.