Transhimalaya, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 41 relations: Alpine orogeny, Annapurna Conservation Area, Argali, Bharal, China, Cretaceous, Eocene, Eurasian lynx, Gangdise Shan, Geology of the Himalayas, Goa (antelope), High pressure metamorphic terranes along the Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone, Himachal Pradesh, Himalayan wolf, Himalayas, India, Indus-Yarlung suture zone, Karakoram fault system, Kiang, Kibber, Ladakh, Lhasa terrane, Mount Kailash, Mount Nyenchen Tanglha, Mustang District, Nepal, Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains, Pin Valley National Park, Qiangtang terrane, Red fox, Siberian ibex, Snow leopard, Spiti, Sven Hedin, Tibet, Tibetan fox, Tibetan Plateau, Urial, Vascular plant, Yak, Yarlung Tsangpo.

2. Mountain ranges of Myanmar
3. Mountain ranges of Sichuan
4. Mountain ranges of Tibet
5. Mountain ranges of the Himalayas
6. Transhimalayas

Alpine orogeny

The Alpine orogeny or Alpide orogeny is an orogenic phase in the Late Mesozoic (Eoalpine) and the current Cenozoic that has formed the mountain ranges of the Alpide belt.

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Annapurna Conservation Area

Annapurna Conservation Area is Nepal's largest protected area covering in the Annapurna range of the Himalayas.

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Argali

The argali (Ovis ammon), also known as the mountain sheep, is a wild sheep that roams the highlands of western East Asia, the Himalayas, Tibet, and the Altai Mountains.

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Bharal

The bharal (Pseudois nayaur), also called the blue sheep, is a caprine native to the high Himalayas.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Eurasian lynx

The Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.

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Gangdise Shan

The Kailash Range, Kailas Range, Gangdisi Mountains, Gangdese Range or Gangdisê Range, is a mountain range on the Tibetan Plateau in Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region. Transhimalaya and Gangdise Shan are mountain ranges of Tibet and Transhimalayas.

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Geology of the Himalayas

The geology of the Himalayas is a record of the most dramatic and visible creations of the immense mountain range formed by plate tectonic forces and sculpted by weathering and erosion.

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Goa (antelope)

The goa (Procapra picticaudata), also known as the Tibetan gazelle, is a species of antelope that inhabits the Tibetan plateau.

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High pressure terranes along the ~1200 km long east-west trending Bangong-Nujiang suture zone (BNS) on the Tibetan Plateau have been extensively mapped and studied.

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Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh ("Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India.

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Himalayan wolf

The Himalayan wolf (Canis lupus chanco) is a canine of debated taxonomy.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya. Transhimalaya and Himalayas are mountain ranges of Tibet and mountain ranges of the Himalayas.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indus-Yarlung suture zone

The Indus-Yarlung suture zone or the Indus-Yarlung Tsangpo suture is a tectonic suture in southern Tibet and across the north margin of the Himalayas which resulted from the collision between the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate starting about 52 Ma.

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Karakoram fault system

The Karakoram fault is an oblique-slip fault system in the Himalayan region across India and Asia.

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Kiang

The kiang (Equus kiang) is the largest of the Asinus subgenus.

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Kibber

Kibber, also Kibber Khas and Khyipur, is a village high in the Spiti Valley in the Himalayas at in Himachal Pradesh in northern India.

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Ladakh

Ladakh is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959.

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Lhasa terrane

The Lhasa terrane is a terrane, or fragment of crustal material, sutured to the Eurasian Plate during the Cretaceous that forms present-day southern Tibet.

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Mount Kailash

Mount Kailash (also Kailasa; Kangrinboqê or Gang Rinpoche; གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ;; कैलास) is a mountain in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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Mount Nyenchen Tanglha

Mount Nyenchen Tanglha (officially Nyainqêntanglha Feng;; Chinese: 念青唐古拉峰, Pinyin: Niànqīng Tánggǔlā Fēng) is the highest peak of Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains, which together with the Gangdise range forms the Transhimalaya.

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Mustang District

Mustang District (मुस्ताङ जिल्ला) (from the Tibetan möntang, "fertile plain") is one of the eleven districts of Gandaki Province and one of seventy-seven districts of Nepal which was a Kingdom of Lo-Manthang that joined the Federation of Nepal in 2008 after abolition of the Shah dynasty.

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Nepal

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains

The Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains (officially spelt Nyainqêntanglha Mountains in Chinese) are a long mountain range, and subrange of the Transhimalaya System, located in Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Transhimalaya and Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains are mountain ranges of Tibet and Transhimalayas.

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Pin Valley National Park

Pin Valley National Park is a National park of India located in the Spiti Valley in the Lahaul and Spiti district, in the state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Qiangtang terrane

The Qiantang terrane is one of three main west-east-trending terranes of the Tibetan Plateau.

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Red fox

The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa.

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Siberian ibex

The Siberian ibex (Capra sibirica), also known using regionalized names including Altai ibex, Asian ibex, Central Asian ibex, Gobi ibex, Himalayan ibex, Mongolian ibex or Tian Shan ibex, is a polytypic species of ibex, a wild relative of goats and sheep.

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Snow leopard

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), occasionally called ounce, is a species of large cat in the genus Panthera of the family Felidae.

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Spiti

Spiti (pronounced as Piti in Bhoti language) is a high-altitude region of the Himalayas, located in the north-eastern part of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Sven Hedin

Sven Anders Hedin, KNO1kl RVO,Wennerholm, Eric (1978) Sven Hedin – En biografi, Bonniers, Stockholm (19 February 1865 – 26 November 1952) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator of his own works.

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Tibet

Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.

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Tibetan fox

The Tibetan fox (Vulpes ferrilata), also known as the Tibetan sand fox, is a species of true fox endemic to the high Tibetan Plateau, Ladakh plateau, Nepal, China, Sikkim, and Bhutan, up to elevations of about.

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Tibetan Plateau

The Tibetan Plateau, also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and Qing–Zang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, most of Qinghai, western half of Sichuan, Southern Gansu provinces in Western China, southern Xinjiang, Bhutan, the Indian regions of Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) as well as Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, northwestern Nepal, eastern Tajikistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.

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Urial

The urial (Ovis vignei), also known as arkars, shapo, or shapu, is a wild sheep native to Central and South Asia.

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Vascular plant

Vascular plants, also called tracheophytes or collectively tracheophyta, form a large group of land plants (accepted known species) that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant.

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Yak

The yak (Bos grunniens), also known as the Tartary ox, grunting ox, or hairy cattle, is a species of long-haired domesticated cattle found throughout the Himalayan region of Gilgit-Baltistan (Kashmir, Pakistan), Nepal, Sikkim (India), the Tibetan Plateau, (China), Tajikistan and as far north as Mongolia and Siberia.

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Yarlung Tsangpo

The Yarlung Tsangpo, also called Yarlung Zangbo and Yalu Zangbu River is the upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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See also

Mountain ranges of Myanmar

• Alantaya Taungdan
• Arakan Mountains
• Bilauktaung
• Daen Lao Range
• Dawna Range
• Eastern Himalayas
• Hengduan Mountains
• Karen Hills
• Naga Hills
• Pegu Range
• Shan Hills
• Tenasserim Hills
• Thanon Thong Chai Range
• Transhimalaya
• Transhimalayas
• Zinghmuh

Mountain ranges of Sichuan

• Bayan Har Mountains
• Chola Mountains
• Daba Mountains
• Daliang Mountains
• Dalou Mountains
• Daxiangling
• Daxue Mountains
• Hengduan Mountains
• Jinping Mountains
• Longmen Mountains
• Longquan Mountains
• Min Mountains
• Mount Zheduo
• Qionglai Mountains
• Shaluli Mountains
• Transhimalaya
• Transhimalayas
• Xiaoxiang Range

Mountain ranges of Tibet

• Assam Himalaya
• Damodar Himalaya
• Eastern Himalayas
• Ganesh Himal
• Gangdise Shan
• Goikarla Rigyu
• Great Himalayas
• Hengduan Mountains
• Himalayas
• Kangri Karpo
• Kunlun Mountains
• Mahalangur Himal
• Meili Snow Mountains
• Mount Zheduo
• Nalakankar Himal
• Namcha Barwa Himal
• Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains
• Rolwaling Himal
• Shaluli Mountains
• Tanggula Mountains
• Taniantaweng Mountains
• Transhimalaya
• Transhimalayas
• Ulugh Muztagh

Mountain ranges of the Himalayas

• Assam Himalaya
• Black Mountains (Bhutan)
• Dundwa Range
• Eastern Himalayas
• Ganesh Himal
• Garhwal Himalayas
• Great Himalayas
• Gurans Himal
• Himalayas
• Hindu Kush
• Hindu Raj
• Jobo Rinjang
• Kang Nachugo
• Karakoram
• Kishtwar Himalaya
• Lower Himalayan Range
• Mahalangur Himal
• Margalla Hills
• Nalakankar Himal
• Purvanchal Range
• Rolwaling Himal
• Sivalik Hills
• Toba Kakar
• Transhimalaya
• Transhimalayas
• Western Himalayas
• Zanskar

Transhimalayas

• Cherko la
• Gangdise Shan
• Hengduan Mountains
• Laken La
• Mayum La
• Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains
• Semo La
• Transhimalaya

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhimalaya

Also known as Gangdise - Nyenchen Tanglha range, Trans-Himalaya, Trans-Himalayan, Trans-Himalayas, Transhimalayan, Transhimalayas.