Abrasion-set limits on Himalayan gravel flux

Elizabeth H. Dingle (), Mikaël Attal and Hugh D. Sinclair
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Elizabeth H. Dingle: School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh
Mikaël Attal: School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh
Hugh D. Sinclair: School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh

Nature, 2017, vol. 544, issue 7651, 471-474

Abstract: The amount of coarse gravel transported out of the Himalayan mountains by rivers is insensitive to catchment size, because the majority of gravel sourced more than 100 kilometres upstream of the mountain front is abraded into sand before it reaches the Ganga Plain.

Date: 2017
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