Climatic imprints in Quaternary valley fill deposits of the middle Teesta valley, Sikkim Himalaya

Quaternary International

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-46

  Meetei, Lukram I ^a   Pattanayak, Sanjaya K ^a   Bhaskar, Arun ^a   Pandit, Maharaj K ^a,b   Tandon, Sampat K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; BOULDER; CHANNEL FLOW; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEBRIS FLOW; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; LITHOFACIES; PEBBLE; PERTURBATION; QUATERNARY; RIVER CHANNEL; VALLEY FILL;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; SIKKIM HIMALAYAS;

EID: 33751264209     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2006.08.018     Document Type: Article

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