Climate-induced variability in the Late Pleistocene-Holocene fluvial and fluvio-deltaic successions in the Ganga plains, India: A synthesis

Geomorphology

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 173-188

  Sinha, Rajiv ^a   Sarkar, Sujit ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Alluvial stratigraphy; Climate change; Himalayan foreland; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; FORELAND BASIN; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RIVER SYSTEM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ASIA; CALCUTTA; DELHI; EURASIA; GANGES BASIN; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 70350757550     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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