{"product_id":"the-international-karakoram-project-volume-2-paperback-9780521129763","title":"The International Karakoram Project: Volume 2 (Paperback) 9780521129763","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe International Karakoram Project: Volume 2\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolume II of this two volume collection explores the scientific results of the International Karakoram Project.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eK. J. Miller (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521129763, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 4 February 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e664 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 3.6 cm, 1.04 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFirst 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContents to volume I\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Preface to volume II\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Inauguration: 1. Opening remarks by the President of the Royal Geographical Society\u003cbr\u003e 2. The International Karakoram Project: an appraisal\u003cbr\u003e 3. Karakoram history: early exploration\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mountaineering in the Karakoram in the late 1970s\u003cbr\u003e 5. A note on Rakaposhi 7788m\u003cbr\u003e 6. A science of mountains\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Geology: 7. The geographical and geological domains of the Karakoram\u003cbr\u003e 8. Geology of the south-central Karakoram and Kohistan\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Glaciology: 9. Ice depth echo-sounding techniques employed on the Hispar and Ghulkin glaciers\u003cbr\u003e 10. Impulse radar ice-depth sounding on the Hispar glacier\u003cbr\u003e 11. Impulse radar ice-depth sounding of the Ghulkin glacier\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Survey: 12. The survey work of the International Karakoram Project, 1980\u003cbr\u003e 13. The calculation of crustal displacement and strain from classical survey measurements\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Earthquakes: 14. A microearthquake survey in the Karakoram\u003cbr\u003e 15. Source studies of the Hamran, Drael and Patan earthquakes in Kohistan, Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e 16. Stress field and plate motion in the Karakoram and surrounding regions\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Housing and Natural Hazards: 17. A critical review of the work method and findings of the Housing and Natural Hazards Group\u003cbr\u003e 18. The construction and vulnerability to earthquakes of some building types in the northern areas of Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e 19. Yasin valley: the analysis of geomorphology and building types\u003cbr\u003e 20. The socio-economic cost of planning for hazards: an analysis of Barkulti village, Yasin, northern Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e 21. Barkulti in the Yasin valley: a study of traditional settlement form as a response to environmental hazard\u003cbr\u003e 22. Analysis of recovery and reconstruction following the 1974 Patan earthquake\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e 24. Medical aspects of the IKP D. Giles\u003cbr\u003e Part VII. Geomorphology: 25. The geomorphology of the Hunza valley, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e 26. Recent fluctuations in some glaciers of the western Karakoram mountains, Hunza, Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e 27. Quaternary glacial hisotry of the Hunza valley, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e 28. Glacial and paraglacial sediments of the Hunza valley, north west Karakoram, Pakistan: a preliminary analysis\u003cbr\u003e 29. Particle size distribution on the debris slopes of the Hunza valley\u003cbr\u003e 30. Sediment load of the Hunza river\u003cbr\u003e 31. A preliminary study of ancient trees in the Hunza valley and their dendroclimatic potential\u003cbr\u003e 32. Salt efflorescences and salt weathering in the Hunza valley, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e 33. Rock temperature observations and chemical weathering in the Hunza region, Karakoram: preliminary data\u003cbr\u003e Part VIII. Karakoram research cell: 34. 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