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Beth Pratt-Sitaula
Researcher at Central Washington University
Publications - 17
Citations - 1712
Beth Pratt-Sitaula is an academic researcher from Central Washington University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Erosion & Bedrock. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 14 publications receiving 1523 citations. Previous affiliations of Beth Pratt-Sitaula include Pennsylvania State University & University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Decoupling of erosion and precipitation in the Himalayas
Douglas W. Burbank,Ann E. Blythe,J. Putkonen,Beth Pratt-Sitaula,Emmanuel J. Gabet,Michael E. Oskin,Ana P. Barros,T. P. Ojha +7 more
TL;DR: Observations from a meteorological network across the Greater Himalaya, Nepal, along with estimates of erosion rates at geologic timescales from low-temperature thermochronometry are combined to predict spatial variations in precipitation and slopes and correlate with gradients in both erosion rates and crustal strain.
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Slip pulse and resonance of the Kathmandu basin during the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal.
John Galetzka,Diego Melgar,J. F. Genrich,Jianghui Geng,Susan Owen,Eric O. Lindsey,Xiaohua Xu,Yehuda Bock,Jean Philippe Avouac,Jean Philippe Avouac,L. B. Adhikari,Bishal Nath Upreti,Beth Pratt-Sitaula,Tara Nidhi Bhattarai,B. P. Sitaula,Angelyn Moore,Kenneth W. Hudnut,Walter Szeliga,J. Normandeau,M. Fend,Mireille Flouzat,Laurent Bollinger,Prithvi Shrestha,Bharat Prasad Koirala,Umesh Gautam,M. Bhatterai,Ratna Mani Gupta,T. Kandel,Chintan Timsina,Soma Nath Sapkota,Sudhir Rajaure,N. Maharjan +31 more
TL;DR: GPS and interferometric synthetic aperture radar data are used to model the earthquake rupture as a slip pulse ~20 kilometers in width, ~6 seconds in duration, and with a peak sliding velocity of 1.1 meters per second, which propagated toward the Kathmandu basin at 3.3 kilometers per second over ~140 kilometers.
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Rainfall thresholds for landsliding in the Himalayas of Nepal
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a slope stability model, driven by daily rainfall data, which accounts for changes in regolith moisture and showed that regolith thickness determined the seasonal rainfall necessary for failure, whereas slope angle controlled the daily rainfall required for failure.
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Modern erosion rates in the High Himalayas of Nepal
TL;DR: In this article, a network of 10 river monitoring stations was established in the High Himalayas of central Nepal across a steep rainfall gradient, and suspended sediment fluxes were used to calculate watershed-scale erosion rates that were then compared to monsoon precipitation and specific discharge.
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Landscape disequilibrium on 1000-10,000 year scales Marsyandi River, Nepal, central Himalaya
TL;DR: In this article, the Marsyandi River in the central Nepal Himalaya has oscillated between bedrock incision and valley alluviation in response to changes in monsoon intensity and sediment flux.