Holocene monsoonal dynamics and fluvial terrace formation in the northwest Himalaya, India

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 601-604

  Bookhagen, Bodo ^a,b   Fleitmann, D ^c   Nishiizumi, K ^d   Strecker, M R ^a   Thiede, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluvial processes; Geomorphology; Himalaya; Monsoon

Indexed keywords

FLUVIAL TERRACE FORMATION; HOLOCENE MONSOONAL DYNAMICS; SEDIMENT FLUX;

ALUMINUM; BERYLLIUM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; OSCILLATIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEDIMENTS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; MONSOON;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 33745875050     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22698.1     Document Type: Article

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