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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Ladakh"”.

  1. Rizong : a monastic community in Ladakh

    Grimshaw, A.University of Cambridge1983

    cambridge Repository record

  2. Glacier Monitoring in Ladakh and Zanskar, northwestern India

    Byrne, Martin Edward

    … use the morphometric approach to map glaciers in Ladakh; and third, to use Landsat and ASTER data and GPS and field measurements to monitor glacier change in Ladakh over the past four decades. Field work was carried out in the summers of 2007 and 2008. For clean ice, a ratio of shortwave infrared …

    montana-tech Repository record

  3. Glacier Monitoring in Ladakh and Zanskar, northwestern India

    Byrne, Martin Edward

    … use the morphometric approach to map glaciers in Ladakh; and third, to use Landsat and ASTER data and GPS and field measurements to monitor glacier change in Ladakh over the past four decades. Field work was carried out in the summers of 2007 and 2008. For clean ice, a ratio of shortwave infrared …

    montana Repository record

  4. Tectonostratigraphy of the Shyok Suture Zone in Ladakh, NW India.

    Martin, Craig R.Massachusetts Institute of Technology2023

    … campaign in the Shyok-Nubra confluence region of Ladakh, in northwest India. It provides lithological descriptions of the major geological units in the Shyok suture zone, and also compiles tectonostratigraphic correlations with exposures in northern Pakistan to develop a tectonic reconstruction of …

    mit Repository record

  5. Testing models of ultra-fast India-Asia convergence : new paleomagnetic results from Ladakh, Western Himalaya

    Bailey, Elizabeth AMassachusetts Institute of Technology2014

    … Knowledge of the paleolatitude of the Kohistan-Ladakh Arc (KLA), an intermediate tectonic unit currently situated between the converging Indian and Eurasian continents in Western Himalaya, would constrain the tectonic history and dynamics of Himalayan orogenesis. We present new paleomagnetic …

    mit Repository record

  6. Rhythms of the gods: the musical symbolics of power and authority in the Tibetan Buddhist Kingdom of Ladakh

    Trewin, A.M.City University London1995

    This thesis is a cultural study of music in Ladakh ("Indian Tibet"). Drawing upon interdisciplinary theories in symbolic anthropology and musicology, the study stresses the primacy of symbolic action as a means of defining and controlling social reality, and proceeds to examine the relationship …

    city-london Repository record

  7. ACCOMMODATING CONSERVATION: REGULATING ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE IN A HIMALAYAN TOURIST TOWN

    Johnson, Jamie Kathleen

    … construction of socio-spatial landscapes in Leh, Ladakh and elucidates the relationships between stakeholders in the tourism arena, conservation profession, regional and state government, and local civil society. It explains processes of urban regulation, juxtaposing the (re)production and …

    syracuse-diss Repository record

  8. Structural constraints on the exhumation of the Tso Morari Dome, NW Himalaya

    Clark, Ryan JMassachusetts Institute of Technology2005

    The Tso Morari culmination in the Ladakh region of northwest India is a large (>3,000 km²) structural dome cored by coesite-bearing rocks of Indian continental crustal affinity. As one of only two localities in the Himalaya where ultrahigh-pressure rocks have been found, the culmination offers …

    mit Repository record

  9. Ladakhi Traditional Songs: A Cultural, Musical, and Literary Study

    Dinnerstein, NoeThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2017

    … culture of the former Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh. I look at how Buddhism and pre-Buddhist religion informed the texts and performance contexts of traditional songs, and how Ladakhi songs represent cultural self-images through associated musical, textual, and visual tropes. Many songs of the …

    cuny-grad Repository record

  10. Under(lining) Leh : the order of consciousness

    Bagai, RadhikaMassachusetts Institute of Technology1994

    … in the captivating, but remote, region of Ladakh in India. The royal citadel of Leh is a dramatic example of the genius deployed in the conception of the settlement as a unified, complete, and highly evolved entity. It lends credibility to the idea that form is a highly controlled and …

    mit Repository record

  11. The India-Asia pile up

    White, Lloyd Thomas2011

    … to determine if the granitoids of the Ladakh and Karakorum batholiths of NW India were emplaced episodically or continuously during the Himalayan orogeny. The SHRIMP results indicate that magmatism was episodic. However, we also found that zircons with high-uranium concentrations …

    aus-cath Repository record

  12. The India-Asia pile up

    White, Lloyd Thomas2011

    … to determine if the granitoids of the Ladakh and Karakorum batholiths of NW India were emplaced episodically or continuously during the Himalayan orogeny. The SHRIMP results indicate that magmatism was episodic. However, we also found that zircons with high-uranium concentrations …

    anu Repository record

  13. Quantifying crystalline exhumation in the Himalaya

    Wilke, Franziska Daniela HelenaUniversität Potsdam

    … circumstances have been seen at Tso Morari, Ladakh, India, 200 km further east where comparable rock assemblages occur. In conclusion, as exhumation was already done well before the initiation of the monsoonal system, climate dependent effects (erosion) appear negligible in comparison to …

    potsdam-diss Repository record