Climate variability and glacial dynamics in the Himalaya [Elektronische Ressource] / Dirk Scherler

Dirk Scherler

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Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Universität Potsdam Climate variability and glacial dynamics in the Himalaya Dirk Scherler Kumulative Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doktor der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.) in der Wissenschaftsdisziplin Geologie eingereicht an der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Potsdam Potsdam, im April 2010 Published online at the Institutional Repository of the University of Potsdam: URL http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/4987/ URN urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-49871 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-49871 Für Kalle “[…] if we speak of the general uniformity of Nature we must do so in a wide sense, remembering the wide epochs, it may be, of thousands of years, which represent but as it were one or two footsteps in the progress of Nature, which is the self-revelation of Him with whom a thousand years is as one day.” [Arthur Neve, Journeys in the Himalayas and Some Factors of Himalayan Erosion, 1911] Abstract In the high mountains of Asia, glaciers cover an area of approximately 115,000 km² and constitute one of the largest continental ice accumulations outside Greenland and Antarctica.

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• Publié par: universitat_potsdam
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 16
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 15 Mo

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