Land of Extremes (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Land of Extremes

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The Bhutan Himalaya is a land of extremes with rugged topography, dissecting low-relief uplands, rainfall that ranges from 0.7 to 6 m/year and erosion rates that vary by more than 2 orders of magnitude.

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A. Heimsath/ASU

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