Reports on the northeastern part of the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau
Beijing: Science Press, 1987. 8vo, pp. [4], vi, 510; printed from typescript; graphs, maps, tables, illustrations throughout; previous owner's bookplate, otherwise near fine in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. "From May to September 1981, the Sino-W. German Joint Expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau made multi-disciplinary investigations of glaciology, permafrost, climatic geomorphology, geology, surveying and remote sensing in the Anyêmaqên Mountains, Qilian Mountains and a part of the Kunlun Mountains. A symposium on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau was held at Braunschweig in April, 1982 ... and scientists from West Germany, China, Switzerland and Austria took part in it. The following five topics relating to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau were discussed: 1. Glaciers and glacier oscillations; 2. Ice and frost regions; 3. Geomorphological types; 4. Vegetations, weather and climate; 5. Recent and ancient alpine climate in Asia" (Preface). Item #69219
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