Asia and Oceania JapanJapan - Topography Photo by: Arid OceanThe Japanese islands are the upper portions of vast mountains belonging to what is sometimes called the Circum-Pacific Ring of Fire, which stretches from Southeast Asia to the Aleutian Islands. Mountains cover over 75% of the land's...
Located in East Asia, west coast of the Pacific Ocean, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has a land area of about 9.6 million square kilometers, and is the third-largest country in the world, next to Russia and Canada. From north to south, China stretches from the center of the ...
ecotourism in isolated mountain areas of Central and South Asia, with a focus on poverty alleviation, [...] unesdoc.unesco.org 这一项目旨在促进中亚和南亚偏远 山区 可 持 续 的社 区文化和生态旅游,重点是缓解贫 困,减少从农村到城市的移居人口并保护文化和自然遗产。 unesdoc.unesco.org Therefo...
Along the equator and coverage includes Africa; Europe; North America; South America, Asia, and Australia; the resolution of the raw data is one-arcsecond (30 m). A derived one-arcsecond dataset with trees and other nonterrain features removed covering Australia was made available in November...
Geographic Location: AsiaAlong the southern Himalayan topographic front, the Indian summer monsoon modulates erosive processes and rates. To investigate the influence of topography and relief on rainfall generation and resultant erosion, we processed satellite rainfall amounts for the last 8 years (1998...
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such as Mt. Everest in Asia due to the process of vulcanicity, or in form of ranges due to the process of folding, such as the Rockies in North America and Andes in South America. Basically, five types of mountains exist, each having a distinct mode of formation: block mountains, fold...
Figure 2. Example of GRWL centerline corrections along the Amazon River. Purple lines represent the GRWL centerlines before corrections, and orange lines represent the centerline updates. Upper right inset shows the selected location in South America. the reach definition process. In addition to...
We provide a model for the genesis of Holocene coralligenous buildups occurring in the northwestern Adriatic Sea offshore Venice at 17–24 m depth. High-resolution geophysical surveys and underwater SCUBA diving reconnaissance revealed meandering shap
Asia; throughout much of western and central Europe; and across New Guinea and New Zealand in Oceania (Fig.1; Supplementary Fig.4). Mountain ranges that were classified as ‘intensified’ occurred mainly in northern Africa; the Middle East; and in South, East, and Southeast Asia (Fig.1b)...