Colliding continents : a geological exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, & Tibet /
Mike Searle.
- 1st ed.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- xxiii, 438 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-430) and index.
Oceans and continents -- Continents in collision : Kashmir, Ladakh, Zanskar -- The dreaming spires of the Karakoram -- Pressure, temperature, time, and space -- Frozen rivers and fault lines -- North-west frontier : Kohistan, Hindu Kush, Pamirs -- Faces of Everest -- Mapping the geology of Everest and Makalu -- Mountains and Maoists : Annapurna, Manaslu -- Around the bend : Nanga Parbat, Namche Barwa -- Roof of the world : Tibet, Pamirs -- Extruding Indochina : Burma, Vietnam, Yunnan, Thailand -- The day the earth shook : the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake 2004 -- The making of the Himalaya, Karakoram and Tibetan Plateau.