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Photogeological survey of the Siwalik Ranges and the Terai Plain, Southeastern Nepal

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1972

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Minoru Itihara, Tatsuo Shibasaki, Noboru Miyamoto
Osaka City University (Osaka City University)

Abstract

Under the Sun Kosi Terai Project of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), the executing agency for UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), the writers engaged in the photogeological and hydrogeological survey of the Siwalik Ranges and the Terai Plain in the southeastern Nepal, during two months from December 10, 1968 to February 9, 1969. Geological research on the Siwaliks (Miocene to early Pleistocene) and the Younger deposits (the post-Siwalik deposits, middle Pleistocene to Holocene) in the aforesaid area will offer basic data for the development of groundwater in the eastern Terai Plain....