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Erosion in Deep Gorges: The Leaping Tiger Gorge on the Upper Yangtze

In: China’s Economic Growth

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  • David Watts
  • Zhou Yue

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The Hutiaoxia (Leaping Tiger) Gorge is located in Henduan Mountain region of Yunnan province in the south-west (Map 13.1). This part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in southwest China includes east Tibet, west Sichuan and north-west Yunnan, and is bounded on the west by Burma. It is transitional between this plateau and the lower Yunnan-Guizhou Plateaux (Zhang 1992), as well as the eastern end of the Himalayas (Ives & Messerli, 1990). A number of large rivers cross the region, including the Salween, the Mekong, and the Jinsha (the upper Yangtze). The last runs across the region from the north-west before turning abruptly to the north-east to enter the gorge proper in its middle reaches.

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  • David Watts & Zhou Yue, 2000. "Erosion in Deep Gorges: The Leaping Tiger Gorge on the Upper Yangtze," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Terry Cannon (ed.), China’s Economic Growth, chapter 13, pages 293-308, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-97739-2_13
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333977392_13
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