Evidence of a Mid-Late Holocene seismic event from Dhadhar river basin, Gujarat alluvial plain, western India

Current Science

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 812-815

  Raj, Rachna ^a   Mulchandani, N ^a   Bhandari, S ^a   Maurya, D M ^a   Chamyal, L S ^a  

^a M S UNIVERSITY OF BARODA   (India)

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