| Volume 2 No. 1 Volume 1 No. 2 Volume 1 No.1 | Jr. Nep. Geol., Soc., Vol. 1, No. 2, 1981, 18-36 A note to the weathering processes in the East Nepal Himalayas
Jan Kalvoda Institute of Geology and Geotechnics of Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague Boeni 11 -1401, Praha 4 - Sporilov, 14132, Czechoslovakia and Libuse Smolikova Faculty of Science of Charles University, Prague Albertov 6, Praha 2- Nove Mesto, 12000, Czechoslovakia ABSTRACT The variability of the climato-morphogenetic processes of the Himalaya during the Quaternary was due-in addition to the global climatic variations of the Earth-to the orogenic changes of the volume and shape of these mountains. In this paper the main modellation features of weathering process es in the East Nepal Himalayas on the examples of the soil genesis and glacigenous stratigraphy accumulations are summarized. The rates of the original mountain vault destruction and transport of the disintegrated masses depend on the intensity of the weathering processes of rocks controlled by the climatic conditions, and are a function of the potential energy of the highest mountain massifs.
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