Evidence for Holocene megafloods down the Tsangpo River gorge, southeastern Tibet

Quaternary Research

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-207

  Montgomery, David R ^a   Hallet, Bernard ^a   Yuping, Liu ^b   Finnegan, Noah ^a   Anders, Alison ^a   Gillespie, Alan ^a   Greenberg, Harvey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Himalaya; Namche Barwa; Outburst floods; Paleolakes; Tsangpo River

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; HOLOCENE; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; OUTBURST; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; RIVER TERRACE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EID: 4644308385     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2004.06.008     Document Type: Article

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