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Landslides and Deserted Places in the Semi-Arid Environment of the Inner Himalaya

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Book cover Geomorphological Hazards in High Mountain Areas

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Among other geomorphologic hazards, landslides are a common feature in high mountain areas like the Himalayan Range (cf. Shroder 1989). On the southern flanks of the Himalayas, specially the Low and Middle Himalaya, landslides, representing the dominant hillslope process (Whitehouse 1990), are of special concern as they cause permanent loss of agricultural land (Ives & Messerli 1981), block important roads and even destroy housing (cf. Schelling 1988). The dominance of landslides in this region can be attributed to lithology, the tectonic stress applied to the rocks and steep relief In addition the climatic conditions promote deep weathering and provide landslide triggering rainfall events, generally mainly during the monsoon (cf. Kienholz et al. 1982, Bartaiya & Valdiya 1989).

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  1. Department of Geography, Friedrich-Schiller-University, D-07740, Jena, Germany

    Jussi Baade & Roland Mäusbacher

  2. Forschungsstelle Archäometrie der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften am Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, P.O. Box 103980, D-69029, Heidelberg, Germany

    Günther A. Wagner

  3. Department of Remote Sensing, image processing and cartography, Institute for Applied Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Graz University of Technology, Steyrergasse 30, A-8010, Graz, Austria

    Erwin Heine & Robert Kostka

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Baade, J., Mäusbacher, R., Wagner, G.A., Heine, E., Kostka, R. (1998). Landslides and Deserted Places in the Semi-Arid Environment of the Inner Himalaya. In: Kalvoda, J., Rosenfeld, C.L. (eds) Geomorphological Hazards in High Mountain Areas. The GeoJournal Library, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5228-0_3

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