Postglacial Landform and Sediment Associations in a Landslide-Fragmented River System: The Transhimalayan Indus Streams, Central Asia

Abstract

The chapter concerns deposits and land form associations along high mountain rivers interrupted by landslides. The catastrophic landslides are largely due to failure of rock walls that were over steepened by glaciers and debutressed by deglaciation. Some 180 rock...