Late Pleistocene-Holocene hydrologic changes in the interfluve areas of the central Ganga Plain, India

Geomorphology

Volumn 54, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 279-292

  Srivastava, Pradeep ^a   Singh, Indra Bir ^b   Sharma, Shikha ^b   Shukla, Uma Kant ^c   Singhvi, Ashok Kumar ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

^c KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Alluvial ridges; Ganga Plain; Holocene climate change; Interfluve; Luminescence dating; Ponds

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

GANGA PLAIN; INDIA;

EID: 0141514420     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(02)00361-6     Document Type: Article

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