Hermann Kudrass

TL;DR: This work presents a comprehensive organic carbon budget for the Himalayan erosional system, including source rocks, river sediments and marine sediments buried in the Bengal fan and indicates that 70 to 85 per cent of the organic carbon is recent organic matter captured during transport, which serves as a net sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors obtained 14C dates from in situ roots and peat which indicate that the sea level was lowered eustaticly to at least 40-60 m below the present level between 36,000 and 10,000 BP.

TL;DR: A detailed dated sequence of turbidite sedimentation based on a core transect perpendicular to the active channel-levee system in the upper mid-fan area is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a composite sediment record from the Bay of Bengal is used to document the evolution of chemical weathering in the Himalayan system (Himalayan range and Indo-Gangetic floodplain), the world largest sediment conveyor to the oceans, since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the organic carbon (C org ) in the Bengal Fan turbiditic sediments to track changes in the proportions of C3 and C4 plants in the Himalayan basin.