Evolution of Ganges-Brahmaputra western delta plain: Clues from sedimentology and carbon isotopes

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 25-26, 2009, Pages 2564-2581

  Sarkar, A ^a   Sengupta, S ^a   McArthur, J M ^b   Ravenscroft, P ^c   Bera, M K ^a   Bhushan, Ravi ^d   Samanta, A ^a   Agrawal, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAHMAPUTRA; CARBON ISOTOPES; DELTA PLAIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FLOOD PLAINS; FLUVIAL CHANNELS; GLACIAL CLIMATE; HOLOCENES; INCISED VALLEY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE HOLOCENE; LATE QUATERNARY; MARINE CLAYS; PROGRADATION; SEDIMENT DISCHARGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SUBSURFACE SEDIMENTS; TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CLAY MINERALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; STRATIGRAPHY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; VEGETATION;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AGGRADATION; C3 PLANT; CARBON ISOTOPE; DELTA; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLOODPLAIN; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MANGROVE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; OVERBANK SEDIMENT; PALEOSOL; PROGRADATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; GANGES DELTA; SOUTH ASIA;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 70350075836     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.05.016     Document Type: Article

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