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Author:   John F. Shroder Jr.
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781138867048

ISBN 10:   1138867047
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   27 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 HIMALAYA TO THE SEA: GEOMORPHOLOGY AND THE QUATERNARY OF PAKISTAN IN THE REGIONAL CONTEXT 2 MIOCENE TO HOLOCENE UPLIFT AND SEDIMENTATION IN THE NORTHERN HIMALAYA AND ADJACENT AREAS 3 PRESENT AND PAST PATTERNS OF GLACIATION IN THE NORTHWEST HIMALAYA: CLIMATIC, TECTONIC AND TOPOGRAPHIC CONTROLS 4 REVISED CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE LATE CENOZOIC BUNTHANG SEQUENCE OF SKARDU INTERMONTANE BASIN, KARAKORAM HIMALAYA, PAKISTAN 5 QUATERNARY AND HOLOCENE INTERMONTANE BASIN SEDIMENTATION IN THE KARAKORAM MOUNTAINS 6 QUATERNARY GLACIATION OF THE KARAKORAM AND NANGA PARBAT HIMALAYA 7 ALTITUDINAL ORGANIZATION OF KARAKORAM GEOMORPHIC PROCESSES AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS 8 SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND YIELD AT THE RAIKOT GLACIER, NANGA PARBAT, PUNJAB HIMALAYA 9 POSITION OF THE PALAEOINDUS AS REVEALED BY THE MAGNETIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE SHINGHAR AND SURGHAR RANGES, PAKISTAN 10 PALAEOECOLOGIC RECONSTRUCTION OF FLOODPLAIN ENVIRONMENTS USING PALAEOSOLS FROM UPPER SIWALIK GROUP SEDIMENTS, NORTHERN PAKISTAN 11 THE PALAEOCLIMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LOESS DEPOSITS IN NORTHERN PAKISTAN 12 DECREASED TECTONISM OF THE SUI DOME 13 SURFACE SOILS AND INDUS RIVER SEDIMENTS 14 FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY OF THE LOWER INDUS BASIN (SINDH, PAKISTAN) AND THE INDUS CIVILISATION 15 MORPHOLOGY AND DYNAMICS OF THE INDUS RIVER: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MOHEN JO DORO SITE 16 UPLIFTED MARINE TERRACES ALONG THE MAKRAN COAST OF PAKISTAN AND IRAN 17 GEOGRAPHY, GEOMORPHIC PROCESS AND EFFECTS ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES ON THE MAKRAN COAST

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The editors and contributors have done a first-class job. The book will be a durable classic, for the editor has brought together a team of authors of distinction.' - Oxford Univ ` ... A timely assessment of the geomorphology and Quaternary history of Pakistan and the adjacent region ... presents valuable reviews and stimulating new results on the processes and patterns of landscape change.' - The Holocene

The editors and contributors have done a first-class job. The book will be a durable classic, for the editor has brought together a team of authors of distinction.' - Oxford Univ ` ... A timely assessment of the geomorphology and Quaternary history of Pakistan and the adjacent region ... presents valuable reviews and stimulating new results on the processes and patterns of landscape change.' - The Holocene

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John F. Shroder Jr. is Professor and Chair of Department at the Department of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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