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⇱ Granite from Hispar Glacier, Hispar, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan


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Granite from
Hispar Glacier, Hispar, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

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Locality type:Glacier
Classification
Type:Granite
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Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hispar Glacier, Hispar, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1490296
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1490296:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Granite in this Region
Lak-Khiang Glacier (Kunyang Lak Glacier), Hispar Glacier, Hispar, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Pumarikish Glacier (Pumarichhish Glacier), Hispar Glacier, Hispar, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Nearest other occurrences of Granite
6.8km (4.2 miles) Lak-Khiang Glacier (Kunyang Lak Glacier), Hispar Glacier, Hispar, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
13.8km (8.5 miles) Pumarikish Glacier (Pumarichhish Glacier), Hispar Glacier, Hispar, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
37.2km (23.1 miles) Upper Hunza Valley, Hunza District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
77.1km (47.9 miles) Kohistan Batholith, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
95.1km (59.1 miles) Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
QEOLOGYor QiraiT. 337 22. NOTES 0~ the G~oLoGz of GILGIT. :By Lieut.-Gem C. A. :MCMAH0~, Y.R.S., F.G.S....Hornblende-Granite. (2) The Hatu PiE Granite. (3) The Acid Variety of the Hatu Pit Granite. (4) The Askurdas...Askurdas Muscovite-Granite. (5) The Aplites. Part II. Topographical Description of the Rocks, with Map...to Chilas. (4) Ramghat to Gilgit. (5) Gilgit to the Kilik Pass. (6) Gilgit to Yasin and the Darkot Pass..., Political Agent, Malakand, when stationed at Gilgit, made field-observations and collected rock-specimens
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
before this Society relating to the Chogo Lungma glacier. The paper to-night describes our exploration of...him. The bases of our two last expeditions in Baltistan, North-West Himalaya, are reached in twenty-three...were made. From Skardu, the chief village of Baltistan, a march north-east brings one to the Shigar valley...bordering the lower part of the glacier. Colonel Godwin-Austen sa/w the glacier from a distance when surveying...of this is about a mile in front of the present glacier. Then comes a marked division where the moraine
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
http://about.jstor.org/terms THE HISPAR GLACIER. Ten days later we crossed the Hispar pass to the head of Snow...Journal, in which he says of Cornice glacier, just mentioned, "This glacier is a tributary of the Biafo."...graph. No break occurs in the wall here, and no glacier enters either here or for many miles further down...Watershed peak, show conclusively that Cornice glacier is not a tributary of, and has no connection whatever...the glacier east of B 15 to see if a caravan passage could be discovered to the Punmah glacier, but
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The most striking new fact is that the great glacier from which the Nubra river flows, is some 45 miles...and then there comes the now well-known Baltoro glacier, lying in a similar great trough. Looking at the...Biafo glacier occupies a broad valley passing north-west, beyond which is the great Hispar glacier. In...a straight line from the snout of the Siachen glacier of Nubra to Hunza be more than 20 miles from one...to be noted further north where the Shimshal glacier of upper Hunza is almost in a line with the Oprang
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
scale, says Dr. Neve, the typical conditions of Baltistan. The river-bed is wide and sandy, shut in by cliffs...Towering about the huts rise gigantic walls of granite to peaks 21,000 feet high, presenting the steepest...for the exploration of the Saltoro or Bilaphond glacier were made at Guma, in the upper Saltoro valley...explorers soon came in sight of the great main glacier, and established a base camp in a lovely grassy...explorers that during the last twenty years or so the glacier had advanced about a quarter of a mile. During
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Report (volume)
occurrence of a small dome neai Msii in the Attock District. 279—280 (H. M. Lahiri) PART 3. Bj The Mineral...Coulson) Note on Sapphirinc in the Vizagapatum District. 444—446 • (H. Crooksbank) • On a Titanifeious...€• -Movements of Glacier Snouts. Group I, Hunza-Nagar. PLATE 7. Movements of Glacier Snouts. Group II...II. Baltistan-Ladakh. PLATE 8. = 16 miles. inches PLATE 9. —Diagrams showing specific gravity and...collected at Mithrala, Attock „ 12, 13. District. (14,789 .r 14,790). Lamdlidens sp. Left valves
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Raikhot watershed within the Himalaya of northern Pakistan. Bedrock in the Raikhot watershed primarily consists...Raikhot watershed within the Himalaya of northern Pakistan. The carbonate and silicate fractions refer to...⬍1% of the outcrop exposure area. Unweathered granite, gneiss, and schist also contain small amounts...affected by glaciation. The 14-km-long Raikhot glacier covers ⬃20% of the Raikhot watershed and spans...flows ⬃28 km from the terminus of the Raikhot glacier to the Indus River at an elevation of ⬃1200 m.
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Book
eight countries: India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Pakistan, China (including Tibet) and Afghanistan. The...Ice Age nearly two million years ago, ice the glacier-ribbon continually split into crevasses and reform...glaciers have gouged out cirques. — — As the glacier moves down the floor to a Though apparently...may be joined by tributaries. Because the trunk glacier usually gouges its valley at a faster rate and...tributaries are left "hanging", linked to the main glacier by steep ice-falls. Glaciers transport most
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
photograph of the terminal ice-cave of the famous Hispar glacier, in conjunction with the explanatory sketch-map...instructive picture, whilst that of the Hassaaabad glacier (already reproduced in Nature, January 2nd, 1908...quite a different character. Moreover, this latter glacier has been increasing in length of late years, contrary...The Archaean base of the country is held by a Granite, which, even if newer than the Aravalli system...system, is the oldest rock in Bundelkhand. This Granite, where exposed, is seen to be seamed by quartz-reefs
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Report (volume)
evolution of the North Karakoram cover, North Pakistan Zi Gaetan, 39 M., JADouL, F., Erpa, E. & Garzanti...granitoid structure of the Hunza Karakoram, north Pakistan TreLoar, magmatism P.J. & Izatr, C.N. Tectonics...and West Pakistan Aumep, Z. Leucocratic rocks from the Bela ophiolite, Khuzdar district, Pakistan 89 Arir...zone of Pakistan Jan, M.Q., Kuan, North Pakistan Kuan, M.A., JAN, B.L. Evolution Pakistan: temporal...reconstruction of the Dir Group: within Kohistan, N. Pakistan Haynes, J.R. & Rex, D.C. evidence for magmatic
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Report (volume)
Vaushtikb— 1. On the occurrence of gold in the district of Singhbbum.II, 11-14. 2. On the occurrence of...of argentiferous galena and copper in the district of Manbhum, south-west frontier of Bengal . . . HI...The iron industry of the western portion of the district of Raipur .... XX, 167-170. 4. Notes oi} the...viii, geol. map) . XXTV, 217-230. 12. Note on granite in the districts of Tavoy and Morgui (PI. xv)....the geology and mineral resources of the Narnaul district (Patiala State) . XXXIII, 55-61. 17. Note on
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Report (issue)
boundaries in south Karakor,un (northwest Hbnalaya, Pakistan) ....................................... 141 G...211 Olivier Vanderhaeghe 14. Gneiss domes and granite ernplacement in an obliquely convergent regime:...domes have cores do1ninated by 1nig1natite and granite strongly suggests that these structures are intimately...a mantled gneiss dome as comprising a core of granite, mig1natite, and meta1norphic rocks that are overlain...dome improvement, Lesson I: Is your dome built on granite or gneiss?: Geological Society of Alnerica Abstracts
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Book (volume)
German geology, made most of subdued L mountain district of Saxony, es- his observations in the which...observations mainly and attempted to formulate from district, these observations laws which should govern...depths. first is basaltic lava of the second, granite. An example of the ; 2. Rocks which were formed...are: (a) gneiss may be derived from an original granite, but may also have originated from another rock...possible. A granite may grade into a syenite, and this into a diorite and again, a granite and a diorite
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