Author: Chang Chengfa, R. Shackleton and Dewey a.o.
Title: The geological evolution of Tibet. Report of the 1985 Royal Society, Academia Sinica Geotraverse of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.
Description: London 1988. 4to. 413 pp.; one large, coloured folded geological map in pocket with a microfiche of an appendix on geological evolution of Tibet, numerous plates, figures, maps. Cloth with pictorial dustjacket. = The Tibetan Plateau is a region that, because of its remoteness, elevation and mystery, has excited adventurers and explorers for centuries. It has also fascinated Earth scientists, who have regarded it as the type example of collision tectonics: collision between the Indian and Eurasian continents. A very good copy.

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