Himalayan geology
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Although most data suggest that the India–Eurasia continental collision began approx 45–55 Myr ago, the architecture of the Himalayan–Tibetan orogen is dominated by deformational structures developed in the Neogene period (< 23 Myr... more
The flat, fertile Ganga Plain of northern India has no date earlier than 12.3 ka BP. A cross-section shows a canyon 5 km deep that parallels the Himalayan Mountains for 3,000 kilometers. The bottom of the canyon is irregularly flat, not... more
Producing Himalayan Darjeeling: Mobile People and Mountain Encounters/Jayeeta Sharma, University of Toronto, 2016 This article explores the social production of Darjeeling through the social and cultural encounters that helped transform... more
New samples collected from a transect across the summit limestone of Mount Everest (Qomolangma Formation) show that multiple distinct deformational events are discretely partitioned across this formation. Samples from the highest... more
Looking at the national environment in terms of disaster preparedness for floods, landslides, and earthquakes, there is an overall consciousness on the part of key actors in Nepal working in the fields of disaster management that natural... more
Himalaya: the Green Roof of the World
The Architecture of the Planet, David Vanderper chapter 3, 10/2012
The Architecture of the Planet, David Vanderper chapter 3, 10/2012
Bilham, R., (1995). Location and Magnitude of the 1833 Nepal earthquake and its relationship to the rupture zones of contiguous great Himalayan earthquakes, Current Science, 69(2), 155-187, July 1995
Sedimentary archives in the Himalayan foreland basin and Indus submarine fan provide the most detailed records of how changing monsoon strength may have affected erosion and the development of tectonic structures in the western Himalaya... more
Abstract: Soil erosion is a key environmental issue in the geologically sensitive zone of the lower Himalaya. Watershed as a hydrological unit plays an important role in the conservation of such a perishable resource. Morphometric... more
The chapter discusses the drivers that contribute to increasing vulnerability of the Himalayan communities in India (and other neighboring Himalayan countries) with global warming. Adaptation activities to reduce the burden of... more
Tectonic models for the Oligocene–Miocene development of the Himalaya mountain range are largely focused on crustal-scale processes, and developed along orogen-perpendicular cross sections. Such models assume uniformity along the length... more
The Dharan–Mulghat area of the eastern Nepal can be divided into three tectonic units: the Higher Himalayan Crystallines, the Lesser Himalayan Sequence and the Siwaliks from north to south separated by the Main Central Thrust (MCT) and... more
Drainage Morphometric analysis was carried out to assess the fluvial erosion susceptibility of watersheds in Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh in India. The topographic maps and SRTM DEM were used as inputs for digitization of drainages... more
Quantitative constraints on the rates of tectonic processes underpin our understanding of the mechanisms that form mountains. In the Sikkim Himalaya, late structural doming has revealed time-transgressive evidence of metamorphism and... more
The scientific contribution in this article is three-fold: the presentation of evidence for early large earthquakes along the Himalayan arc, the preliminary interpretation of their seismological value, and a discussion of the problems... more
Updated and Accurate Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of snow covered and glaciated mountainous area is essential for many applications such as avalanche hazard and numerical modeling of mass movements or mapping of terrain changes. The best... more
The Dongjiu–Milin shear zone located on the northwest flank of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis, southeast Tibet, separates Indian and Asian plate rocks. It is characterized by a thick sequence of highly strained and ductilely deformed... more
Garnet-whole rock Sm-Nd data are presented for several samples from the Indian plate in the NW Himalaya. These dates, when combined with the P-T evolution of the Indian plate rocks, allow a thorough reconstruction of the prograde thermal... more
A number of small wetlands are scattered in the three hill subdivisions of the Darjeeling district. West Bengal. Among these, the ones located at Chhaymile, Jorpokhari, Margarates Hope, Nakhapani, Selphu and Upper Pacheng Bazar have been... more
Although there is some evidence for an Eocene monsoon the most important intensification of rainfall appears to start ~24 Ma, Early Miocene. Many paleoceanographic proxies for monsoon intensity are linked to wind and do not correlate well... more
In the wake of a disaster like the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the question of “what kind of hydropower development and for whom” re-emerges. In places like Nepal’s Langtang Valley, ongoing debates about “the damage done and the dams to come”... more