A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...a subsequent date Colonel Tanner referred again to the same region. ' We have "now obtained," he wrote, f "nearly all the topography of that remarkable region, which "is situated on the northern slope of its ill-defined watershed, and to the eastward a small "portion of the southern slope as well. It is an immense tangle of exceedingly sharp "ridges, which zigzag about in the most perplexing manner. There are hundreds of peaks "of nearly the same height and so like each other that after moving a few miles they cannot "berecognised. One very marked feature in this range is the extraordinary number "of mountain lakes or tarns, which are found as many as three or four together at the "sources of all the small feeders." Mr. Lydekker has also referred to the uniformity of elevation which prevails in the region north-west of the Indus. "A remarkable feature," he wrote, "along the Indus "valley in Darel, for the notice of which the writer is indebted to Lieutenant-Colonel "Tanner, is that all the peaks over a considerable area reach to a nearly uniform height '" of about 21000 feet; thus apparently leading to the conclusion that this level indicates.'an old plain of marine denudation, originally bordered by higher ground of which "the peaks of Nanga Parbat and Rakaposhi reaching to over 26000 and 25000 feet "are remnants.' Trigonometrical surveyors have thus not been able to trace by means of heights the continuation of the Great Himalayan axis beyond the Indus, and the problem will not be solved without a geological survey. It is possible that the range curves in parallelism to the Karakoram and Kailas ranges, and that the Indus has cut through it at its bend. If the ben...