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Insight into the dynamics of a long-runout mass movement using single-grain feldspar luminescence in the Pokhara Valley, Nepal
Anna-Maartje de Boer
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Soil Geography and Landscape group & Netherlands Centre for Luminescence Dating, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Wolfgang Schwanghart
Institute of Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Jürgen Mey
Institute of Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Basanta Raj Adhikari
Department of Civil Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Lalitpur, Nepal
Tony Reimann
Soil Geography and Landscape group & Netherlands Centre for Luminescence Dating, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Short summary
This study tested the application of single-grain feldspar luminescence for dating and reconstructing sediment dynamics of an extreme mass movement event in the Himalayan mountain range. Our analysis revealed that feldspar signals can be used to estimate the age range of the deposits if the youngest subpopulation from a sample is retrieved. The absence of clear spatial relationships with our bleaching proxies suggests that sediments were transported under extremely limited light exposure.
This study tested the application of single-grain feldspar luminescence for dating and...
