Late Quaternary stratigraphic development in the lower Luni, Mahi and Sabarmati river basins, western India

Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 453-471

  Jain, M ^a   Tandon, S K ^b   Bhatt, S C ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c BUNDELKHAND UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fluvial response; Late Quaternary; Lithofacies; Luminescence chronology; Stratigraphic correlation

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; QUATERNARY; RIVER BASIN; STRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 5444269455     PISSN: 02534126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02716736     Document Type: Article

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