Holocene loess in the Himalayas piedmont of southeastern Nepal

• Main Authors: Latrubesse, Edgardo M., Nugraha, Abang Mansyursyah Surya
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Sciences; Loess; Holocene
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178837
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Loess, loess-like, sandy loess, and sandy-silty fluvial–aeolian deposits are intercalated to fluvial sediments and lie on a flat surface under intense agricultural land use in Bardibas, Mahottari district, central Nepal. To identify the depositional processes and provenance, we carried out geochemic...