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Code: ISBN 81 7371 094 5	Title	Dynamic Himalaya
TO INDEX	Author	Valdiya, K.S.
	Publisher	Orient Longman
	Price	Rs 175.00	Pages	196pp.
	This monograph aims to apprise readers of the natural events that occurred and the processes that were in operation before the emergence of the giant edifice of the Himalaya. Helping to achieve clearer understanding of the structural architecture or makeup, the book purports to highlight the mechanisms and the stages of development of the world's youngest mountain province. The text is supplemented with exhaustive data, maps, figures and colour photographs. Contents Many-splendoured mountain; Perspective: Physiographic and environ- mental; Protracted cycle of Purana sedimentation; From diastrophism to diastrophism; Era of growing tectonic instability; Collision and welding of India with Asia; Turbulent times: Birth of the 'King of Mountains',Evolution of the "Abode of snows" and development of the Indo-Gangetic basin;Continuing tectonic unrest;References;Glossary.