Uplift and erosional history of the Deccan Traps, India: Evidence from laterites and drainage patterns of the Western Ghats and Konkan Coast

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 137, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 57-69

  Widdowson, M ^a,b   Cox, K G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Butwell Cottage   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CAINOZOIC; DRAINAGE; EROSION; LATERITE; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

INDIA, DECCAN TRAPS; INDIA, WESTERN GHATS;

EID: 0029750350     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(95)00211-t     Document Type: Article

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