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consisted of two blocks before the Mesozoic, the North Lhasa Block and the South Lhasa Block. The two blocks have lithology and detrital zircon ages similar...

the Indian Plate and the Ladakh Batholith (also Transhimalaya or Karakoram-Lhasa Block) to the north. This suture zone is formed by: Ophiolite Mélanges...

The north side of the suture zone is the Ladakh Batholith of the Karakoram-Lhasa Block. The rocks of the suture zone consist of an ophiolite mélanges composed...

southwest corner of Xinjiang across the Karakoram Pass in the far north. It extends from the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram range to the north to the main Great...

lakes, and glaciers in the area. Landslides on the Karakoram Highway are very common. The Karakoram Highway connects Gilgit to Tashkurgan Town, Kashgar...

precipitation as the Himalayas and the Karakoram block the rains from the Indian monsoon. The nearby Trans-Karakoram Tract is also the subject of ongoing...

Trans-Karakoram Tract (Shakshlgam Valley) to northeast of Sikkim. China National Highway 318 (G318): It runs from Chengdu in Sichuan to Lhasa north of...

eight-thousanders of the nearby Karakoram mountain range. The Indus River running through the region separates the Karakoram from the Ladakh Range. The name...

traditional campsite and current military base located in the midst of the Karakoram Range in northern Ladakh, India. It is on the historic trade route between...

Sichuan (the Hengduan Mountains). In the west, the curve of the rugged Karakoram range of northern Kashmir embraces the plateau. The Indus River originates...

are named lhari including a "Demchok lhari" in the northern suburbs of Lhasa. "Karpo", meaning "white", serves to distinguish the Ladakh's mountain peak...

ran from Leh to Yarkand via the Karakoram Pass and Xaidulla. A couple of possible routes also ran from Leh to Lhasa. The first recorded royal residence...

Asia and central Tibet; in fact trade between Yarkand and Lhasa was carried on via the Karakoram route and Leh. Dortch et al., Catastrophic partial drainage...

known as the Xinjiang–Tibet highway, passes nearby, connecting it with Lhasa and Yecheng County. The outpost is 575 kilometres (357 mi) from the starting...

2012. Colliding Continents: A geological exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, & Tibet. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 464 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-965300-3...

its entire length runs along the Karakoram Mountain range. Its specific location is as follows: From the Karakoram Pass it runs eastwards along the watershed...

the south from 20 to 120 m/Ma during Jurassic. The collision of the Lhasa block from the south resulted that the delta formed along the margin of the...

Pakistan ceded a portion of Kashmir in the 1960s. They also share the Karakoram Highway, one of the highest paved roads in the world. Pakistani and Chinese...