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Photo Gallery Bao Yang
• Glaciers, Rivers and Lakes of Kailash area • Late Holocene Monsoonal Temperate Glacier Fluctuations
on the Tibetan Plateau Tibetan Plateau formation, Climate and Ecosystem
Erwin Appel and Volker Mosbrugger Navin Juyal and P.S. Thakker
• Geomorphic evidence of Glaciations around Mt. Kailash
(Inner Kora): implication to past climate
Introduction The Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan mountain range has one of the Earth's most imposing topographic features and has the largest glaciated area outside the polar region. Glaciers are the thick sheets of ice covering the region. They are not only important in shaping the landscape, but are also excellent records of past climate that determine the life and culture in the region. They retreat and advance in response to climate changes. The glaciers movement deposit large amount of debris or moraine along its route. The moraine distribution determines the past glacial extent and climate in the region. Article by Bao Yang discusses the Late Holocene Monsoonal Temperate Glacier Fluctuation on the Tibetan plateau. Erwin Appel discusses Tibetan plateau formation, climate and ecosystem. They have given their observations in detail. The third article by Navin Juyal specifically describes the geomorphic evidences of glaciation around mount Kailash and its implications to past history with field photographs and site maps. Various photos of glaciers, rivers and lakes of Kailash area are given here.
