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- Glacier_growing abstract "Glacier growing, artificial glaciation or glacier grafting, is a practice carried out in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya regions aimed at creating small new glaciers to increase water supply for crops and in some cases to sustain micro hydro power. In order to encourage the growth of a glacier local farmers acquire ice from naturally occurring glaciers, and carry it to high altitude areas where the ice is put inside a small cave dug out in a scree-slope. Along with the ice other ingredients such as water, salt, sawdust, wheat husks and charcoal are also placed at the site. The use of glacier grafting is an old skill of the mountain farmers of Baltistan and Gilgit, where it is used for irrigation purposes since at least the 19th century. This technique was described by Lieutenant David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer (1876–1962) in the 1920s. Allegedly glacier grafting also has been used to block mountain passes.".
- Glacier_growing thumbnail Glacier_growing_1.jpg?width=300.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageID "16679865".
- Glacier_growing wikiPageLength "3870".
- Glacier_growing wikiPageOutDegree "22".
- Glacier_growing wikiPageRevisionID "690894543".
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Agriculture.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Avalanche.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Baltistan.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Category:Glaciology.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pakistani_culture.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Chewang_Norphel.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink David_Lockhart_Robertson_Lorimer.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Drainage_basin.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Gilgit.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Glacier.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Grafting.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Headwall.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Himalayas.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Hindu_Kush.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Ladakh.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Metres_above_sea_level.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Micro_hydro.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Mountain_pass.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink Scree.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink File:Glacier_growing_1.jpg.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink File:Glacier_growing_2.jpg.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLink File:Glacier_growing_3.jpg.
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLinkText "Glacier growing".
- Glacier_growing wikiPageWikiLinkText "artificial glaciers".
- Glacier_growing wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Commons-inline.
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- Glacier_growing subject Category:Glaciology.
- Glacier_growing subject Category:Pakistani_culture.
- Glacier_growing hypernym Practice.
- Glacier_growing type Company.
- Glacier_growing type Science.
- Glacier_growing type Subfield.
- Glacier_growing comment "Glacier growing, artificial glaciation or glacier grafting, is a practice carried out in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya regions aimed at creating small new glaciers to increase water supply for crops and in some cases to sustain micro hydro power. In order to encourage the growth of a glacier local farmers acquire ice from naturally occurring glaciers, and carry it to high altitude areas where the ice is put inside a small cave dug out in a scree-slope.".
- Glacier_growing label "Glacier growing".
- Glacier_growing sameAs Q979856.
- Glacier_growing sameAs Künstlicher_Gletscher.
- Glacier_growing sameAs Glaĉer-kreskigo.
- Glacier_growing sameAs m.03ym9_0.
- Glacier_growing sameAs Q979856.
- Glacier_growing wasDerivedFrom Glacier_growing?oldid=690894543.
- Glacier_growing depiction Glacier_growing_1.jpg.
- Glacier_growing isPrimaryTopicOf Glacier_growing.