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This video was shot on location in Northern Pakistan. It illustrates what happens as a consequence of rapid uplift. The building of mountains, like the Nanga Parbat massif in the Himalayas. The sta...ges in the story involve the geological evidence for the initial subduction of Nanga parbat rocks below Kohistan: heating and the generation of local granitic melts - the leucogranite story: uplift on the Liachar thrust zone with metamorphic assemlages, the transition from ductile to brittle deformation, neotectonic evidence, fission track dating, and a remarkable story of a flashflood which occurred in 1841, with a full geological explanation related to the above points.
This video was shot on location in Northern Pakistan. It illustrates what happens as a consequence of rapid uplift. The building of mountains, like the Nanga Parbat massif in the Himalayas. The sta...ges in the story involve the geological evidence for the initial subduction of Nanga parbat rocks below Kohistan: heating and the generation of local granitic melts - the leucogranite story: uplift on the Liachar thrust zone with metamorphic assemlages, the transition from ductile to brittle deformation, neotectonic evidence, fission track dating, and a remarkable story of a flashflood which occurred in 1841, with a full geological explanation related to the above points.
| Module code and title: | S339, Understanding the continents |
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| Item code: | S339; 08 |
| First transmission date: | 1990 |
| Published: | 1990 |
| Rights Statement: | |
| Restrictions on use: | |
| Duration: | 00:27:23 |
| Note: | Loan copy available on compilation video S339/12,5,8 |
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| Producer: | David Jackson |
| Contributors: | Rob Butler; Nigel Harris |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Deformation; Earthquakes; Flash floods; Himalayas; Kinematics; Kohistan; Landslips; Liachar thrust zone; Pakistan |
| Subject terms: | Mountains--Himalayas; Rock deformation--Himalayas--Nanga Parbat |
| Master spool number: | HOU6053 |
| Production number: | FOUS526E |
| Videofinder number: | 3178 |
| Available to public: | no |
