A multi-decadal rock magnetic record of monsoonal variations during the past 3,700 years from a tropical Indian tank

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 447-459

  Shankar, R ^a   Prabhu, C N ^a,b   Warrier, A K ^a   Vijaya Kumar, G T ^a,c   Sekar, B ^d  

^a MANGALORE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^d BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

Author keywords

Late Holocene; Little Ice Age; Magnetic susceptibility; Poleoclimate; Rainfall reconstruction; Southern India; Southwest monsoon; Tank bed sediments

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL; ROCK PROPERTY; TROPICAL REGION;

ASIA; CHITRADURGA; EURASIA; INDIA; KARNATAKA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33751215116     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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