The International Karakoram Project: Volume 2

Volume II of this two volume collection explores the scientific results of the International Karakoram Project.

K. J. Miller (Author)

9780521129763, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 4 February 2010

664 pages
24.4 x 17 x 3.6 cm, 1.04 kg

First published in 1984, this volume and its companion relate to the work of a group of 70 scientists from Britain, China, Pakistan, Switzerland and the USA who visited the highest mountains in the world during the summer of 1980 to conduct a series of inter-related studies. Supported by the leading learned societies and professional institutions in Britain, China and Pakistan, and by government agencies in these countries, the International Karakoram Project was an expedition that fused several individual topics in the earth sciences into a unified and single study of the world's most chaotic, unstable landform. The whole project was promoted as the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Geographical Society. Volume II concentrates on the results obtained by the scientists during the course of the project.

Contents to volume I
Preface
Preface to volume II
Acknowledgements
Part I. Inauguration: 1. Opening remarks by the President of the Royal Geographical Society
2. The International Karakoram Project: an appraisal
3. Karakoram history: early exploration
4. Mountaineering in the Karakoram in the late 1970s
5. A note on Rakaposhi 7788m
6. A science of mountains
Part II. Geology: 7. The geographical and geological domains of the Karakoram
8. Geology of the south-central Karakoram and Kohistan
Part III. Glaciology: 9. Ice depth echo-sounding techniques employed on the Hispar and Ghulkin glaciers
10. Impulse radar ice-depth sounding on the Hispar glacier
11. Impulse radar ice-depth sounding of the Ghulkin glacier
Part IV. Survey: 12. The survey work of the International Karakoram Project, 1980
13. The calculation of crustal displacement and strain from classical survey measurements
Part V. Earthquakes: 14. A microearthquake survey in the Karakoram
15. Source studies of the Hamran, Drael and Patan earthquakes in Kohistan, Pakistan
16. Stress field and plate motion in the Karakoram and surrounding regions
Part VI. Housing and Natural Hazards: 17. A critical review of the work method and findings of the Housing and Natural Hazards Group
18. The construction and vulnerability to earthquakes of some building types in the northern areas of Pakistan
19. Yasin valley: the analysis of geomorphology and building types
20. The socio-economic cost of planning for hazards: an analysis of Barkulti village, Yasin, northern Pakistan
21. Barkulti in the Yasin valley: a study of traditional settlement form as a response to environmental hazard
22. Analysis of recovery and reconstruction following the 1974 Patan earthquake
23. The vulnerability to fire risk of some building types and traditional settlements with reference to the fire which destroyed Gayal-Kot in July 1981
24. Medical aspects of the IKP D. Giles
Part VII. Geomorphology: 25. The geomorphology of the Hunza valley, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan
26. Recent fluctuations in some glaciers of the western Karakoram mountains, Hunza, Pakistan
27. Quaternary glacial hisotry of the Hunza valley, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan
28. Glacial and paraglacial sediments of the Hunza valley, north west Karakoram, Pakistan: a preliminary analysis
29. Particle size distribution on the debris slopes of the Hunza valley
30. Sediment load of the Hunza river
31. A preliminary study of ancient trees in the Hunza valley and their dendroclimatic potential
32. Salt efflorescences and salt weathering in the Hunza valley, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan
33. Rock temperature observations and chemical weathering in the Hunza region, Karakoram: preliminary data
Part VIII. Karakoram research cell: 34. The Karakoram research cell.

Subject Areas: Historical geology [RBGF]