Kumaun Himalaya is a home to various threatened medicinal and aromatic plants. Picrorhiza kurroa plant useful in curing many diseases Indian Himalayan region. Due overharvesting from the wild its population decreasing at an alarming rate. The present study attempted assess availability predict highly suitable areas for situ conservation alpine region of Kumaun. Availability P. across meadows wa...

The Chenaillet Ophiolite represents a very well-preserved portion of Ligurian-Piedmont ocean in the Western Alps. It is formed from an oceanic lithospheric succession comprising exhumed mantle, various mafic intrusives (i.e., gabbro sensu lato), and world-renowned sequence pillow basalts. Apart scarce breccias closely related to lithosphere, no sedimentary cover exposed. Historically, has been ...

The Yadong cross structure (YCS), occurring at ~89°30' east longitude in the Himalaya, is the largest across-strike discontinuity in the geologic structure and topography of the High Himalaya between the Himalayan syntaxes. It is manifest by a plan view left offset of the topographic crest of the range and a coincident, apparent, left strike offset of the South Tibetan Detachment System (STDS) ...

Mean hemoglobin concentration of 3511 adult males derived from 19 studies of Andean male permanent residents and 10 studies of Himalayan male permanent residents were compared with reference to partial pressure of inspired oxygen. The regression equation (weighted for sample size) of PIO2 and hemoglobin concentration of the Andean miners is significantly (P less than 0.01) greater than that of ...