Calcretes from a Late Quaternary interfluve in the Ganga Plains, India: Carbonate types and isotopic systems in a monsoonal setting

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 242, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 214-239

  Sinha, R ^a   Tandon, S K ^b   Sanyal, P ^c   Gibling, M R ^d   Stuben, D ^e   Berner, Z ^e   Ghazanfari, P ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

C4 and C3 plants; Calcrete; Carbon and oxygen isotopes; Discontinuity; India; Interfluve; Monsoon precipitation; Pedogenic and groundwater carbonate; Quaternary; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CALCRETE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE; CLIMATE MODELING; DISCONTINUITY; FLOOD DEPOSIT; FLOODPLAIN; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUATERNARY; RIVER DISCHARGE; VEGETATION TYPE;

ASIA; EURASIA; GANGES BASIN; GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA; KALPI; SOUTH ASIA; UTTAR PRADESH;

EID: 33947109958     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.05.015     Document Type: Article

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