Calcrete and Gypsum crusts of the Thar desert, Rajasthan, their geomorphic locales and use as palaeoclimatic indicators

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 249-255

  Rakshit, Prabal ^a   Sundaram, Raghavan Minakshi ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Calcrete; Geomorphology; Palaeoclimate; Rajasthan; Thar Desert; Weathering Crusts

Indexed keywords

CALCRETE; GYPSUM; PALAEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

EID: 0031866502     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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