Erosion distribution in Central Nepal Himalaya from late Pleistocene to present : evidence for recent anthropic forcing of erosion of the Lesser Himalaya

Jerome Lave1, Guillaume P. Morin1, Christian France-Lanord1, Ananta Gajurel2, Albert Galy1, Clio Bosia3 and Rajiv Sinha4, (1)CRPG-CNRS-Univ. Lorraine, Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France, (2)Tribhuvan University, Department of Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)Lhyges, CNRS Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, (4)Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Earth Sciences, Kanpur, India