Collaborators:

• Yongsong Huang, Brown University.

• Prabhat Neupane, South Texas College, Texas .

• Nahid D. Gani, Western Kentucky University.

Objectives:

• Understand late Cenozoic vegetation and climate change of the Siwalik strata, Nepalese Himalayas.

• Investigate sequence stratigraphy and depositional pattern of the fluvial Siwalik rocks along tectonic strike.

• Understand the feedback loop, if any, between grassland expansion, monsoon intensification, and Himalayan uplift.

Dataset:

• Compound-specific biomarker data of δ13C (vegetation proxy), δD (precipitation proxy) and brGDGTs (mean annual air temperature proxy); measured sections in outcrops.