Climatic changes during the last 1800 yrs BP from Paradise Lake, Sela Pass, Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast Himalaya

Current Science

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 983-987

  Bhattacharyya, Amalava ^a   Sharma, Jyoti ^a   Shah, Santosh K ^a   Chaudhary, Vandana ^b  

^a BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^b DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Climate changes; Late Holocene; Palaeoclimate; Palynology; Paradise Lake

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROPHYTA; JUNIPERUS; QUERCUS; TSUGA;

EID: 35548983913     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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