Geology for Global Development

Friday Photo (108): Damage from Cloudburst

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The 2010 cloudburst in Leh, Ladakh, brought large amounts of mud, gravel and boulders into settlements on flood plains in Leh. The debris has still not been fully cleared, and here a house has been buried above window height in debris.

Credit: Rosalie Tostevin, Geology for Global Development
Leh, Ladakh, 2013

Rosalie was the Himalayas Programme Officer for Geology for Global Development and writer for the GfGD blog. She is a geochemist and a postdoc at the University of Oxford.