The Indus Fan, located in the Arabian Sea, contains bulk of sediment eroded from Western Himalaya and Karakoram. Scientific drilling Laxmi Basin by International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) recovered a discontinuous erosional record for River drainage dating back to at least 9.8 Ma, with single sample 15.6 Ma. We dated detrital zircon grains U-Pb geochronology reconstruct how erosion pattern...

BACKGROUND Indigenous knowledge has become recognized worldwide not only because of its intrinsic value but also because it has a potential instrumental value to science and conservation. In Nepal, the indigenous knowledge of useful and medicinal plants has roots in the remote past. METHODS The present study reviews the indigenous knowledge and use of plant resources of the Nepal Himalayas al...

Abstract When the modern-like geomorphology and climate pattern of Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau were established still remains unclear. In this study, we apply paired stable isotope compositions carbonate (δ18Oc) leaf waxderived n-alkanes (δ2Halk) from upper Gazhacun Formation in Namling Basin to reconstruct middle Miocene elevation southern Tibet. Depositional age has been precisely constrained be...

[1] The seismic cycle on a major fault involves long periods of elastic strain and stress accumulation, driven by aseismic ductile deformation at depth, ultimately released by sudden fault slip events. Coseismic slip distributions are generally heterogeneous with most of the energy being released in the rupture of asperities. Since, on the long term, the fault’s walls generally do not accumulat...

The Seti River originates from the Annapurna Massif in Higher Himalaya of Nepal and flows through Pokhara valley Lesser Himalaya. witnessed a disastrous flash flood on May 5th, 2012 causing death 72 people, obliterating dozens homes damaging infrastructures worth millions dollars. Despite event several warnings by scientists for more yet bigger scale future floods valley, fluvial risk is being ...