Characteristic size of relief

Article Abstract:

How landscape characteristics may relate to geomorphology, geophysics and related disciplines was the dominant subject of a Tectonics and Topography conference sponsored by the American Geophysical Union and held from Aug 30 to Sep 4, 1992, at Snowbird, UT. Landscape characteristics include elevation, relief, slope, drainage density and others. The quantitative analysis of these characteristics for the Himalaya Mountains, the Andes Mountains and other regions is likely to improve understanding of underlying geological structures.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Geology, Structural, Structural geology, Geomorphology, Landscape

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Stratigraphic evidence for an early collision between northwest India and Asia

Article Abstract:

Large scale biostratigraphic analysis of Waziristan and Kurram in northwest Pakistan reveals that the accretionary prism and the trench strata were the first to collide with the northwest Indian passive margin during the India-Asia collision. The collision produced significant changes in Cenozoic and Cretaceous oceanography, and faunal life and climate.

India, Natural history, Plate tectonics

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Cracking the Himalaya

Article Abstract:

The test connections that are performed between climate and tectonics to locate active faults in the bedrock core of mountain belts are discussed. An innovative combination of techniques is used to deduce a major surface-breaking fault within the interior of the Himalayan range.

Asia, Observations, Structure, Himalaya Mountains, Shields (Geology)

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