Upland interfluve (Doab) deposition: Alternative model to muddy overbank deposits

Facies

Volumn , Issue 40, 1999, Pages 197-210

  Singh, Indra Bir ^a   Srivastava, Pradeep ^b   Sharma, Shikha ^b   Sharma, Maneesh ^b   Singh, Dhruv Sen ^b   Rajagopalan, Govindaraja ^d   Shukla, Uma Kant ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

^c KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

Author keywords

Floodplain; Ganga plain (INDIA); Muddy fluvial deposit; Overbank; Quaternary to recent; Upland interfluve

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; FLOODPLAIN; OVERBANK SEDIMENT;

GANGA PLAIN; INDIA;

EID: 0033020820     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02537474     Document Type: Article

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