Topographic map of the Tibetan Plateau. Major rifts in south-central Tibet are labeled. The arrow indicates the Indian plate motion. The circles are intermediate-depth earthquakes (>=70 km, unusually ...

A General Map Comprizing China, Chinese-Tartary & Tibet drawn from the Paricular Maps of the Jesuits together with the countries between Kashgar and the Caspian Sea laid down according to the Oriental ...

COL. LENOX CONYNGHAM has done right good service to the science of geography by compiling in one comprehensive volume the complete story of the early exploration of the great Tibetan uplands before ...

Tibet, the remote and mainly-Buddhist territory known as the "roof of the world", is governed as an autonomous region of China. Historically, Tibet was much larger than the autonomous region, being ...