Abstract
DURING the present Mount Everest Expedition, I have had the opportunity of travelling through the Central Himalaya and over part of the Tibetan plateau. The remarkable way in which certain rivers, for example, the Arun, rise in the Ladak Range about 20,000 ft. high, and then flow southwards through the considerably higher main range of the Himalaya, has been commented upon by H. H. Hayden, A. M. Heron, N. E. Odell and others; and the phenomenon has been explained either as the result of the cutting back by the rapid Himalayan torrents until they eventually captured east-to-west flowing Tibetan rivers, or as the result of the rise of the Himalaya subsequent to the establishment of the present drainage system. A method is here given which seems to make it possible to decide between these alternatives, and to distinguish two distinct phases in the formation of the Himalaya.
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WAGER, L. The Rise of the Himalaya. Nature 132, 28 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132028a0
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