. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. impse of the snowy peaks of the Mango Gusorrange, 20,633 feet high. Westward and southward the level sand seemsto run to the feet of a great chain of snow peaks which rise 10,000 feetabove the plain. It is in this plain that the Shigar river, fed by some of the greatestglaciers in the world, beside numberless smaller ones, meets the is much to interest both geographer and geologist. Oestreichclaims that the origin of the plain is techtonic, and not to b
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. impse of the snowy peaks of the Mango Gusorrange, 20,633 feet high. Westward and southward the level sand seemsto run to the feet of a great chain of snow peaks which rise 10,000 feetabove the plain. It is in this plain that the Shigar river, fed by some of the greatestglaciers in the world, beside numberless smaller ones, meets the is much to interest both geographer and geologist. Oestreichclaims that the origin of the plain is techtonic, and not to be attributed 11t; duipter Vlir. to erosion. On this hypothesis the basin would be primitive, and byits formation would have determined the course and the meeting ofthe Indus and the Shigar. In the middle of the plain rises a huge round-backed rock, over1,000 feet high, which looks Uke some strange monster crouching uponthe sand. On top of it Colonel Godwin Austen thought that he coulddetect stratified lake deposits, which, together with other indications,would go to prove that before the glacial period the basin was occupied. THE LSDIS ABOVE SKARDU, WITH MAN-GO OUSOR IN THE BACKGROUND. by a lake up to a great height. Schlagintweit was also of opinion thatthe sedimentary deposits which are found at a great height throughoutthe valley had been formed by an ancient lake.^ As in the case of theKashmir basin and other parts of the Indus valley, so also in the caseof the Skardu plain the lacustrian theory has gradually lost the other hand, Godwin Austens observations as to the undoubtedtraces of glacier action over this plain in the remote past have beenstrengthened and amphfied by all subsequent geologists. The displacements and steep angles noticed in the sedimentarystrata (Drew), as well as the rounded surfaces of the rocks protruding Godwin Austen, The Glaciers of the Mustagh Range. Jour, of the Roy. 34, 1864, p. 19 ; H. von , op. ci
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