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Water Shortage in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh: Causes, Perceptions, and Impacts

Description: Climate change is a growing problem for those living in the Himalayas, threatening water availability and livelihoods. This research seeks to explore the various factors contributing to water shortage and the factors leading to perceptions of water shortage in Himachal Pradesh, India. This thesis explores data collected from 50 interviews conducted in summer 2019 and seeks to understand why participants of these interviews indicated that they do not experience water shortage. The research highl… more
Date: May 2021
Creator: Davis, Kayla N
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Late miocene/pliocene origin of the inverted metamorphism of the Central Himalaya

Description: The spatial association of intracontinental thrusting and inverted metamorphism, recognized in the Himalaya more than a century ago, has inspired continuing efforts to identify their causal relationship. Perhaps the best known sequence of inverted metamorphism is that found immediately beneath the Himalayan Main Central Thrust (MCT), generally thought to have been active during the Early Miocene. It has been widely assumed that the pattern of inverted metamorphism also developed at that time. U… more
Date: January 1, 1997
Creator: Harrison, T.M.; Ryerson, F.J.; LeFort, P. & Yin, A. Lovera, O.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reconnaissance of Field Sites for the Study of Chemical Weathering on the Guayana Shield, South America

Description: Despite the fact that chemical weathering of silicate rocks plays an important role in the draw-down of CO{sub 2} over geologic time scales (Berner and Berner, 1996), the overall controls on the rate of chemical weathering are still not completely understood. Lacking a mechanistic understanding of these controls, it remains difficult to evaluate a hypothesis such as that presented by Raymo and Ruddiman (1992), who suggested that enhanced weathering and CO{sub 2} draw-down resulting from the upl… more
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Steefell, C. I.; Viani, B. E.; Ramirez, A. & Lee, K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Report of Planning Workshop on MAIRS Mountain Zone Implementation

Description: Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study (MAIRS) is an IRS research program over monsoon Asia under START and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP). It was established to address questions about the coupled human and environment system in the monsoon Asia region. The vision of MAIRS is to significantly advance understanding of the interactions between the human and natural components of the overall environment in the monsoon Asian region and implications for the global earth system, in orde… more
Date: June 2007
Creator: Manton, Michael & Ailikun
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Black carbon aerosols and the third polar ice cap

Description: Recent thinning of glaciers over the Himalayas (sometimes referred to as the third polar region) have raised concern on future water supplies since these glaciers supply water to large river systems that support millions of people inhabiting the surrounding areas. Black carbon (BC) aerosols, released from incomplete combustion, have been increasingly implicated as causing large changes in the hydrology and radiative forcing over Asia and its deposition on snow is thought to increase snow melt. … more
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Menon, Surabi; Koch, Dorothy; Beig, Gufran; Sahu, Saroj; Fasullo, John & Orlikowski, Daniel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Satellite-based Observation of the Tectonics of Southern Tibet

Description: The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau were formed as a result of the collision of India and Asia, and provide an excellent natural laboratory for the investigation of the mechanical response of the outer 100 km of the Earth (the lithosphere) to tectonic stress. Geophysicists are divided in their views on the nature of this response with one group advocating homogeneously distributed deformation in which the lithosphere deforms as a fluid continuum while others contend that deformation is highly… more
Date: February 6, 2003
Creator: Ryerson, F J; Finkel, R & van der Woerd, J
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Applications of Morphochronology to the Active Tectonics of Tibet

Description: The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau were formed as a result of the collision of India and Asia, and provide an excellent opportunity to study the mechanical response of the continental lithosphere to tectonic stress. Geophysicists are divided in their views on the nature of this response advocating either (1) homogeneously distributed deformation with the lithosphere deforming as a fluid continuum or (2) deformation is highly localized with the lithosphere that deforms as a system of blocks. … more
Date: January 28, 2005
Creator: Ryerson, F. J.; Tapponnier, P.; Finkel, R. C.; Meriaux, A.; der Woerd, J. V.; Lasserre, C. et al.
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Role of the Qinghai-Xizang plateau in feedback mechanisms affecting the planetary circulation

Description: It has been recognized for some time that the Qinghai-Xizang plateau is of great importance in generating planetary long-waves which, in resonance with similar waves induced by the Rocky Mountains, lead to the familiar pattern of quasi-stationary Rossby waves observed on monthly-mean upper level pressure charts. Seasonal forcing of flow patterns also appears to be particularly strong in the Qinghai-Xizang plateau region. Recent investigations suggest that the Qinghai-Xizang plateau may also be … more
Date: 1980~
Creator: Reiter, Elmar R. & Ding, Yi-Hui
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[News Clip: Mountain climber]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Dallas Air Force member taking leave to climb a mountain in Peru.
Date: June 9, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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