Rock glaciers in the Himalaya

This dataset consists in rock glacier inventoried over the Himalayas, described briefly in Jones et al. (2021) and in more detail in the associated paper Harrison et al. (2024). 

Data description:

1) Point-based inventory for the Greater Himalayas (24,968 landforms)

Rock glacier identification for the Greater Himalaya was done in Google Earth Pro based on geomorphic indicator

(surface flow structure, rock glacier body and frontal slope). For consistency, each pin point was digitised at the elevation at which the base of the frontal slope met the slope downstream.

2) Sampled rock glacier points

 Randomly selected sample (5%, n= 2070 landforms) from the Western, Central, and Eastern Himalaya regions, provided as point shapefile.

3) Sampled rock glacier polygons

Randomly selected sample (5%, n= 2070 landforms) from the Western, Central, and Eastern Himalaya regions digitised on Google Earth. The extended geomorphological footprint was used, in agreement with RGIK (2022) guidelines. In the GH rock glacier inventory both intact and relict rock glaciers were digitised. Data are provided as polygon shape file and excel sheet.

Data are provided in  Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_WGS_1984

Datum: D_WGS_1984