A Handbook of the HimalayaIndus Publishing Company, 1990 - 350 pages |
Contents
REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY | 13 |
Natural Vegetation | 38 |
PHYSICAL SETTING CLIMATE AND SOILS | 55 |
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Alaknanda altitude animals Arunachal Pradesh base beds Bhutan blue brown Castanopsis central climatic coloured common comprises consists cover cultivation Darjeeling developed district drains east eastern Himalaya elevation flows foothills forest type formation Garhwal glaciers granite grey heavy higher hills Himachal Pradesh Himalayan range horizons important India Jammu joins Kashmir known Kumaun Ladakh lake land landslide lies limestone lives located lower main species major mixed moist monsoons mountain Nepal northern occur peaks pine plains precipitation quartzites rain rainfall received region Rhododendron rich ridge rises river river Kali road rocks sandstones scrub season sediments shales Sikkim Siwalik Siwalik hills slates slopes snow soil southern stage streams summer temperate temperature thick Tibet town tract trees tributaries unit upper upto usually valley varies vegetation western winds winter zone