Holocene calcrete crust deposits on the moraine of Batura Glacier, northern Pakistan

Island Arc

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 368-377

  Waragai, Tetsuya ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerator mass spectrometry 14C age; Calcite; Calcrete; Glacial stage; Karakoram Mountains

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CALCITE; CALCRETE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIATION; HOLOCENE; MINERALOGY; MORAINE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; KARAKORAM; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33845382586     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2005.00492.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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